enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

    Pseudocertainty effect, the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. [74] Status quo bias, the tendency to prefer things to stay relatively the same. [75] [76] System justification, the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social ...

  3. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

    On the other hand, confirmation bias can result in people ignoring or misinterpreting the signs of an imminent or incipient conflict. For example, psychologists Stuart Sutherland and Thomas Kida have each argued that U.S. Navy Admiral Husband E. Kimmel showed confirmation bias when playing down the first signs of the Japanese attack on Pearl ...

  4. Goal setting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal_setting

    Goals may narrow someone's attention and direct their efforts toward goal-relevant activities and away from goal-irrelevant actions. Effort Goals may make someone more effortful. For example, if someone usually produces 4 widgets per hour but wants to produce 6 widgets per hour, then they may work harder to produce more widgets than without ...

  5. Self-serving bias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias

    Therefore, other sports of this nature may show similar results, but other team sports or sports with more ambiguous outcomes may not show the same pattern for the self-serving bias. [6] In another study conducted in 1987, the research focused on comparing the self-serving attributions made by individuals who played single sports and those who ...

  6. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

    Of these, sunk costs, time investment, decision maker experience and expertise, self-efficacy and confidence, personal responsibility for the initial decision, ego threat, and proximity to project completion have been found to have positive relationships with escalation of commitment, while anticipated regret and positive information framing ...

  7. Self-handicapping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping

    Individuals self worth is based on their perceived performance and abilities. Covington and Omelich describe effort as a "double-edged sword". This meaning that students feel a sense of urgency to make efforts in order to avoid being punished by their instructor causing them to experience feelings of negativity and guilt.

  8. Wikipedia : Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to...

    Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it. In other words, a person or group may well be the greatest example of what they do in the history of everything, but if no other verifiable reliable sources have been written about them that are relevant to the scope of the article, they cannot be included. If ...

  9. Negativity bias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

    The negativity bias, [1] also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.