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  2. Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia

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    [5] Essentially, after a choice is made people tend to adjust their attitudes to be consistent with, the decision they have already made. [6] [2] [7] It is also possible that choice-supportive memories arise because an individual is only paying attention to certain pieces of information when making a decision or to post-choice cognitive ...

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    [6] Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise, [5] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both ...

  4. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    Biases specific to groups (such as the risky shift) versus biases at the individual level. Biases that affect decision-making, where the desirability of options has to be considered (e.g., sunk costs fallacy). Biases, such as illusory correlation, that affect judgment of how likely something is or whether one thing is the cause of another.

  5. Error management theory - Wikipedia

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    The objective of it is to encourage trainees to make errors and encourage them in reflection to understand the causes of those errors and to identify suitable strategies to avoid making them in future. [1] Various biases in thinking and decision-making have been highlighted by Daniel Kahneman and have been shown to cause cognitive errors in ...

  6. Rational choice model - Wikipedia

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    Economic decision making then becomes a problem of maximizing this utility function, subject to constraints (e.g. a budget). This has many advantages. This has many advantages. It provides a compact theory that makes empirical predictions with a relatively sparse model - just a description of the agent's objectives and constraints.

  7. Decision-making models - Wikipedia

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    Decision-making as a term is a scientific process when that decision will affect a policy affecting an entity. Decision-making models are used as a method and process to fulfill the following objectives: Every team member is clear about how a decision will be made; The roles and responsibilities for the decision making

  8. Framing effect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The framing effect has consistently been shown to be one of the largest biases in decision making. [11] In general, susceptibility to framing effects increases with age. Age difference factors are particularly important when considering health care [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and financial decisions.

  9. Loss aversion - Wikipedia

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    In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and his associate Amos Tversky originally coined the term "loss aversion" in their initial proposal of prospect theory as an alternative descriptive model of decision making under risk. [5] "The response to losses is stronger than the response to corresponding gains" is Kahneman's definition of loss aversion.