Cognitive Skew

Cognitive bias affects everything you know. Learn with us the 200+ ways the mind skews our thought process. (http://cognitiveskew.com)

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#16. Stereotyping: People tend to expect a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

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#16. Stereotyping

People tend to expect a member of a group to have certain characteristics without having actual information about that individual.

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#15. Google Effect: People tend to forget information that can be found readily online using Internet search engines.

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#15. Google Effect

People tend to forget information that can be found readily online using Internet search engines.

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#14. Ostrich Effect: People tend to ignore obvious (negative) situations.

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#14. Ostrich Effect

People tend to ignore obvious (negative) situations.

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#13. Ikea Effect: People tend to place disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembly, regardless of the quality of the end result.

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#13. Ikea Effect

People tend to place disproportionately high value on objects that they partially assembly, regardless of the quality of the end result.

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#12. Groupthink: The desire for harmony and conformity in a group results in irrational and dysfunctional decision-making outcomes aimed at suppressing dissenting viewpoints and isolation from outside influences.

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#12. Groupthink

The desire for harmony and conformity in a group results in irrational and dysfunctional decision-making outcomes aimed at suppressing dissenting viewpoints and isolation from outside influences.

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#11. Experimenter's/Expectation Bias: Experimenters tend to believe, certify, and publish data that agree with their expectations, and disbelieve, discard, or downgrade data that appears to conflict.

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#11.  Experimenter's / Expectation Bias

Experimenters tend to believe, certify, and publish data that agree with their expectations, and disbelieve, discard, or downgrade data that appears to conflict.

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#10. Endowment Effect: People demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it.

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#10. Endowment Effect

People demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it.

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#9. Next-in-Line Effect: When people take turns speaking in a group, they remember less about what was spoken immediately before them.