What are YOUR Biases?
- Confirmation bias – tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs
- Anchoring bias – tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered when making decisions
- Availability heuristic – tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events based on how easily they come to mind
- Hindsight bias – tendency to view past events as more predictable than they actually were
- Framing effect – tendency to be influenced by the way information is presented
- Self-serving bias – tendency to attribute positive outcomes to oneself and negative outcomes to external factors
- Overconfidence bias – tendency to overestimate one’s own abilities and knowledge
- Dunning-Kruger effect – tendency for unskilled individuals to overestimate their abilities and for skilled individuals to underestimate theirs
- Negativity bias – tendency to focus on negative information over positive information
- Halo effect – tendency to assume that people who possess one positive trait also possess other positive traits
- Fundamental attribution error – tendency to attribute other people’s behavior to their personality traits rather than situational factors
- Just-world bias – tendency to believe that people get what they deserve
- Groupthink – tendency for groups to make irrational or dysfunctional decisions due to pressure to conform
- Conformity bias – tendency to conform to the opinions or behavior of others
- Status quo bias – tendency to prefer things to stay the way they are rather than change
- Sunk cost fallacy – tendency to continue investing in a project or decision because of the resources already invested
- Endowment effect – tendency to overvalue things that one already possesses
- Neglect of probability – tendency to ignore statistical probabilities when making decisions
- Gambler’s fallacy – tendency to believe that future probabilities are altered by past events
- False consensus effect – tendency to overestimate the degree to which others share one’s beliefs and opinions
- Illusory superiority bias – tendency to overestimate one’s abilities or performance in relation to others
- Stereotyping – tendency to make assumptions about individuals based on their membership in a particular group
- In-group bias – tendency to favor members of one’s own group over members of other groups
- Out-group homogeneity bias – tendency to perceive members of out-groups as more similar to each other than they actually are
- Implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or beliefs that influence behavior, often without a person’s awareness.
What are YOUR Biases?
- Confirmation bias
- Anchoring bias
- Availability heuristic
- Hindsight bias
- Framing effect
- Self-serving bias
- Overconfidence bias
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Negativity bias
- Halo effect
- Fundamental attribution error
- Just-world bias
- Groupthink
- Conformity bias
- Status quo bias
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Endowment effect
- Neglect of probability
- Gambler’s fallacy
- False consensus effect
- Illusory superiority bias
- Stereotyping
- In-group bias
- Out-group homogeneity bias
- Implicit bias