Cognitive biases

our tendency to attribute our own behaviour to external or situational causes but attribute the behaviours of others to internal factors

• Attentional bias

• Actor-observer bias

• Halo effect

• Confirmation bias

the tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information people learn when they make decisions

• Anchoring bias

• Functional fixedness

• False-consensus bias

• Misinformation effect

our tendency to pay attention to some things while simultaneously ignoring others.

• False-consensus bias

• Self-serving bias

• Misinformation effect

• Attentional bias

the tendency to search for, interpret, favour and recall information in a way that confirms or supports your existing beliefs or values.

• Functional fixedness

• Anchoring bias

• Confirmation bias

• Attentional bias

the tendency to overestimate how much others share our opinions, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• False consensus bias

• Optimism bias

• Self serving bias

a cognitive bias involving the tendency to regard objects as only having one function or as only working in a specific way.

• Self serving bias

• Functional fixedness

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Anchoring bias

a cognitive bias in which the impression we form about one quality of a person influences our beliefs and expectations about that person’s other qualities

• Optimism bias

• Self-serving bias

• Attentional bias

• Halo effect

a cognitive bias in which information that is received after an event interferes with a person’s original memory of the event

• Actor-observer bias

• Dunning-Kruger effect

• Misinformation effect

• Anchoring bias

our tendency to overestimate our chances of experiencing positive events and underestimate our chances of experiencing negative events

• Optimism bias

• Halo effect

• Anchoring bias

• Confirmation bias

the tendency to blame external forces when bad events happen to us and to give ourselves the credit when positive events happen to us

• Actor-observer bias

• Self-serving bias

• Confirmation bias

• Anchoring bias