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Denial

Assertion that a statement is false

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Clustering illusion

Erroneously seeing patterns in randomness

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Dunning–Kruger effect

Cognitive bias about one's own skill

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Apophenia

Tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things

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Cognitive bias mitigation

Reduction of the negative effects of cognitive biases

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Framing effect (psychology)

Bias in which choices are influenced by the options' connotations

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Illusion of control

False belief in an ability to control events

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Fundamental attribution error

Psychological phenomenon

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IKEA effect

Cognitive bias

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Loss aversion

Aspect of decision and prospect theories

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Naïve cynicism

Cognitive bias

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Name-letter effect

Tendency of people to prefer the letters in their name over other letters in the alphabet

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Trait ascription bias

Psychological tendency

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Physical attractiveness stereotype

Stereotype

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Introspection illusion

Cognitive bias

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Illusory superiority

Cognitive bias

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Information bias (psychology)

Cognitive bias

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Insensitivity to sample size

Cognitive bias

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Subjective validation

Type of psychological bias

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Subadditivity effect

Cognitive bias

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Worse-than-average effect

Cognitive bias

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Zero-risk bias

Cognitive bias

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Selective perception

Type of cognitive bias

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Social comparison bias

Cognitive bias

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Self-reference effect

Psychological model

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Curse of knowledge

Cognitive bias of assuming others share your knowledge

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Accentuation effect

Effect of categorization

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Actor–observer asymmetry

Cognitive bias

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Attentional bias

Tendency for people's perception to be affected by their recurring thoughts at the time

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Bias blind spot

Cognitive bias

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Egocentric bias

Psychological phenomenon

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Duration neglect

Cognitive bias

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Ambiguity effect

Cognitive bias

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Choice-supportive bias

Tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were

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Defensive attribution hypothesis

Cognitive bias

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Adaptive bias

Theory of bias in human reasoning

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Belief bias

Tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion

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Illusory correlation

Inaccurately perceiving a relationship between two unrelated events

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Fading affect bias

Memory bias affecting emotional memory

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Fluency heuristic

Mental heuristic

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False consensus effect

Attributional type of cognitive bias

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Illusion of validity

Cognitive bias

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Extension neglect

Error in thinking due to under-valuing the size of a set

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Hot-cold empathy gap

Cognitive bias

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Focusing illusion
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Extrinsic incentives bias
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Impact bias

Psychological bias in predicting future emotion

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Implicit stereotype

Unreflected, mistaken attributions to and descriptions of social groups

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Hostile media effect

Theory of mass communication

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Outcome bias

Decision-making bias

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