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Cognitive Biases: Too Much Information[edit]

Part 1[edit]

We notice things that are already primed in memory or repeated often.
Availability heuristic
Attentional bias
Illusory truth effect
Mere-exposure effect
Cue-dependent forgetting
Empathy gap
Omission bias
Base rate fallacy
Bizarre/funny/visually-striking/anthropomorphic things stick out more than non-bizarre/unfunny things.
Bizarreness effect
Von Restorff effect
Picture superiority effect
Self-reference effect
Negativity bias
We notice when something has changed.
Anchoring
Money illusion
Framing effect (psychology)
Weber–Fechner law
Conservatism (belief revision)
Distinction bias
We are drawn to details that confirm our own existing beliefs.
Confirmation bias
Congruence bias
Choice-supportive bias
Selective perception
Observer-expectancy effect
Ostrich effect
Subjective validation
Semmelweis reflex
We notice flaws in others more easily than flaws in ourselves.
Bias blind spot
Naïve cynicism
Naïve realism (psychology)