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  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The availability heuristic (also known as the availability bias) is the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events with greater "availability" in memory, which can be influenced by how recent the memories are or how unusual or emotionally charged they may be. [20] The availability heuristic includes or involves the following:

  3. Heuristic (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    This research, called the heuristics-and-biases program, challenged the idea that human beings are rational actors and first gained worldwide attention in 1974 with the Science paper "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" [14] and although the originally proposed heuristics have been refined over time, this research program has ...

  4. Category:Cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality. Although it may seem like such misperceptions would be aberrations, biases can help humans find commonalities and shortcuts to assist in the navigation of common situations in life.

  5. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia

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    Heuristics are simple for the brain to compute but sometimes introduce "severe and systematic errors." [6] For example, the representativeness heuristic is defined as "The tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood" of an occurrence by the extent of which the event "resembles the typical case." [13]

  6. Heuristic - Wikipedia

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    A heuristic device is used when an entity X exists to enable understanding of, or knowledge concerning, some other entity Y. A good example is a model that, as it is never identical with what it models, is a heuristic device to enable understanding of what it models. Stories, metaphors, etc., can also be termed heuristic in this sense.

  7. Proportionality bias - Wikipedia

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    The proportionality bias, also known as major event/major cause heuristic, is the tendency to assume that big events have big causes.It is a type of cognitive bias and plays an important role in people's tendency to accept conspiracy theories.

  8. Availability heuristic - Wikipedia

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    Due to the availability heuristic, names that are more easily available are more likely to be recalled, and can thus alter judgments of probability. [31] Another example of the availability heuristic and exemplars would be seeing a shark in the ocean. Seeing a shark has a greater impact on an individual's memory than seeing a dolphin.

  9. Familiarity heuristic - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, a heuristic is an easy-to-compute procedure or rule of thumb that people use when forming beliefs, judgments or decisions. The familiarity heuristic was developed based on the discovery of the availability heuristic by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman; it happens when the familiar is favored over novel places, people, or things.