Behavioral Science Biases Quiz

Why do we prefer doing something to doing nothing?

• Action Bias

• Confirmation Bias

• Distinction Bias

• Empathy Gap

Why do we rely on our current emotions when making quick decisions?

• Decision Fatigue

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Anchoring Bias

• Affect Heuristic

Why do we prefer options we know?

• Base Rate Fallacy

• Benjamin Franklin effect

• Bikeshedding

• Ambiguity Effect

Why do we compare everything to the first piece of information we received?

• Attentional Bias

• Availability Heuristic

• Authority Bias

• Anchoring Bias

Why do we focus more on some things than others?

• Attentional Bias

• Bounded Rationality

• Bandwagon Effect

• Barnum Effect

Why do we tend to think that things that happened recently are more likely to happen again?

• Belief Perseverance (The Backfire Effect)

• Base Rate Fallacy

• Ambiguity Effect

• Availability Heuristic

Why do we support opinions as they become more popular?

• Bounded Rationality

• Benjamin Franklin effect

• Bandwagon Effect

• Bikeshedding

Why do we rely on specific information over statistics?

• Base Rate Fallacy

• Belief Perseverance (The Backfire Effect)

• Benjamin Franklin effect

• Bikeshedding

Why do we maintain the same beliefs, even when we are proved wrong?

• Belief Perseverance (The Backfire Effect)

• Benjamin Franklin effect

• Bikeshedding

• Bounded Rationality

Why do we like someone more after doing them a favor?

• Bundling Bias

• Bounded Rationality

• Bikeshedding

• Benjamin Franklin effect