| A | B |
|---|
| Anchoring | The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows. |
| Sunk cost fallacy | You irrationally cling to things that have already cost you something. |
| Availability heuristic | Your judgments are influenced by what springs most easily to mind. |
| Curse of knowledge | Once you understand something, you presume it to be obvious to everyone. |
| Confirmation bias | You favour things that confirm your existing beliefs. |
| Dunning-Kruger effect | The more you know, the less confident you’re likely to be. |
| Belief bias | If a conclusion supports your existing beliefs, you’ll rationalize anything that supports it. |
| Self-serving bias | You believe your failures are due to external factors, yet you’re personally responsible for your successes. |
| The backfire effect | When your core beliefs are challenged, it can cause you to believe even more strongly. |
| The Barnum effect | You see personal specifics in vague statements by filling in the gaps. |
| Groupthink | You let the social dynamics of a group situation override the best outcomes. |
| Negativity bias | You allow negative things to disproportionately influence your thinking. |
| Declinism | You remember the past as better than it was, and expect the future to be worse than evidence suggests it will be. |
| Framing effect | You allow yourself to be unduly influenced by context and delivery. |
| Fundamental attribution error | You judge others on their character, but yourself on the situation. |
| The halo effect | How much you like someone or how attractive they are, influences your other judgements of them. |
| Optimism bias | You overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes |
| Pessimism bias | You overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes. |
| The Just world hypothesis | Your preference for a just world makes you presume that it exists. |
| In-group bias | You unfairly favour those who belong to your group. |
| The Placebo effect | If you believe you’re taking medicine it can sometimes “work” even if it’s fake. |
| The bystander effect | You presume someone else is going to do something in an emergency situation. |
| Reactance | You’d rather do the opposite of what someone is trying to make you do. |
| Spotlight effect | - You overestimate how much people notice how you look and act. |
