What are cognitive biases?
Many of these biases are studied for how they affect belief formation and business decisions and scientific research. • Bandwagon effect the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. • Bias blind spot the tendency not to compensate for one’s own cognitive biases. • Choice-supportive bias the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. • Confirmation bias the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. • Congruence bias the tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of possible alternative hypotheses. • Contrast effect the enhancement or diminishment of a weight or other measurement when compared with recently observed contrasting object. • Dformation professionnelle the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one’s own profession, forgetting any broader poin
