Cognitive Bias

The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows.

• Anchoring

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy

• The Availability Heuristic

• The Curse of Knowledge

Your math teacher goes over a complicated subject quickly assuming all of you know what they are talking about.

• Confirmation Bias

• The Curse of Knowledge

• The Dunning-Kruger Effect

• Belief Bias

You believe your failures are due to external factors, yet you're responsible for your successes.

• The Barnum Effect

• The Backfire Effect

• Self-Serving Bias

• Confirmation Bias

Your horoscope says that you will meet someone new today, and you met that cute guy at the coffee shop so it must be true.

• Declinism

• Negativity Bias

• Group Think

• The Barnum Effect

You remember the past as better than it was, and expect the future to be worse than it will likely be.

• Declinism

• The Framing Effect

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• The Halo Effect

In deliberation, the jury had a hard time believing the small, cute blonde was responsible for the deaths of three people.

• Just-World Hypothesis

• The Halo Effect

• Optimism Bias

• Pessimism Bias

You assume that everyone that works hard can become rich, and only laziness is the only reason for poverty.

• The Bystander Effect

• The Placebo Effect

• Just-World Hypothesis

• In-Group Bias

You presume someone else is going to do something in an emergency situation.

• Anchoring

• The Spotlight Effect

• Reactance

• The Bystander Effect

You are 200 pages into your Mystery Novel and you just hate it. Even though you have two weeks, you worry you won't finish a new novel on time, so you continue reading your chosen novel, bad plot or not.

• The Sunk-Cost Fallacy

• Confirmation Bias

• The Backfire Effect

• Groupthink

Everyone in your friend group hates Marvel movies so you think perhaps your love of the movie is because you have bad taste.

• Optimism Bias

• Groupthink

• Negativity Bias

• Declinism