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  • Affect Heuristic - A cognitive bias where people rely on emotions rather than objective information for decision-making, leading to quick but potentially biased judgments.
  • Ambiguity Aversion - The psychological tendency to prefer known risks over unknown risks, even when potential payoffs are equal or lower.
  • Anchoring Effect - A cognitive bias where individuals rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered, using it as a reference point for subsequent decisions.
  • Attribution Theory - Explore how individuals interpret and explain the causes of behavior and events, shaping our understanding, emotions, and actions.
  • Curse of Knowledge - A cognitive bias where individuals struggle to communicate effectively because they assume others share their knowledge, leading to communication breakdowns.
  • Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect - A cognitive bias where individuals critically evaluate media on topics they know well but uncritically accept information on subjects outside their expertise.
  • Hawthorne Effect - A phenomenon where individuals modify their behavior or performance when they know they are being observed, often leading to temporary improvements.
  • Hindsight Bias - The "I knew it all along" effect, where people overestimate their ability to have predicted past events.
  • Illusory Truth Effect - The illusory truth effect is a cognitive bias where repeated exposure to a statement increases its perceived truthfulness, regardless of its factual accuracy.
  • Loss Aversion - Loss aversion is the psychological bias where the pain of losing something is felt more intensely than the pleasure of gaining an equivalent amount.
  • Paradox of Choice - The counterintuitive finding that too many options can lead to decision paralysis, increased anxiety, and decreased satisfaction with choices made. More options aren't always better.
  • Prospect Theory - A behavioral economic theory describing how people make decisions involving risk and uncertainty, showing that humans systematically deviate from rational choice theory in predictable ways.
  • Pygmalion Effect - A psychological phenomenon where higher expectations lead to improved performance, often acting as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • Recency Bias - A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones. People tend to weigh recent information more heavily than older information when making decisions.
  • Representativeness Heuristic - A cognitive bias where we judge probabilities based on how closely something matches a mental prototype or stereotype, often neglecting objective data.
  • Scarcity Heuristic - A cognitive bias where limited availability increases perceived value, driving urgency and desirability.
  • Streisand Effect - A phenomenon where attempts to hide, remove, or censor information only serve to increase awareness of that information, often making it more widely known than it would have been otherwise.
  • The Dunbar Number - A cognitive limit to the number of stable social relationships an individual can maintain, typically estimated at around 150.