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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Social cryptomnesia, a failure by people and society in general to remember the origin of a change, in which people know that a change has occurred in society, but forget how this change occurred; that is, the steps that were taken to bring this change about, and who took these steps. This has led to reduced social credit towards the minorities ...

  3. False consensus effect - Wikipedia

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    One recent study has shown that consensus bias may improve decisions about other people's preferences. [4] Ross, Green and House first defined the false consensus effect in 1977 with emphasis on the relative commonness that people perceive about their own responses; however, similar projection phenomena had already caught attention in psychology.

  4. Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia

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    When people fail to achieve their goals, counterfactual thinking may be activated (e.g., studying more after a disappointing grade [16]). When they engage in upward counterfactual thinking, people are able to imagine alternatives with better positive outcomes. The outcome seems worse when compared to positive alternative outcomes.

  5. Our DNA is 99.9 percent the same as the person sitting next ...

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    A 2007 study found that about 90% of the genes in the Abyssinian domestic cat are similar to humans. BI GRAPHICS_percentage of DNA humans share with other things_cat Samantha Lee/Business Insider

  6. Hindsight bias - Wikipedia

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    In other words, people became less attached to the actual outcome and were more open to consider alternative lines of reasoning prior to the event. Judges involved in fraudulent transfer litigation cases were subject to the hindsight bias as well and resulted in an unfair advantage for the plaintiff, [ 55 ] showing that jurors are not the only ...

  7. Perspective-taking - Wikipedia

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    Perspective-taking is the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual. [1]A vast amount of scientific literature suggests that perspective-taking is crucial to human development [2] and that it may lead to a variety of beneficial outcomes.

  8. 65 "Who Knows Me Better" Questions to Ask Your Nearest and ...

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    These funny, cute, deep, silly, and hard 'who knows me better' questions will make for the perfect game to playfully quiz your family, friends, and partner. 65 "Who Knows Me Better" Questions to ...

  9. Every challenge that would occur if humans tried to land on ...

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    In 2017, NASA’s Cassini probe sent us our closest view of Saturn to date. If you wanted to take a closer look at the ringed planet, you would have to travel 1.2 ...