Cognitive Biases
A practical cognitive-bias site with clear definitions, learning paths, assessments, self-audits, and debiasing tools.
Coverage Map
The catalog is intentionally wide. This page makes the depth unevenness visible so future passes can target source trails, cases, assessments, comparisons, and teaching kits where they will matter most.
These are important public-facing pages that still have room for more sourcing, cases, assessments, or comparison support.
The tendency to assume that specific conditions are more probable than a more general version of those same conditions
These are the most useful targets when broad catalog depth becomes the next editorial priority.
The tendency to solve problems through addition, even when subtraction is a better approach
A tendency for people to perceive attractive things as more usable
The inclination to presume the purposeful intervention of a sentient or intelligent agent
The tendency to use human analogies as a basis for reasoning about other, less familiar, biological phenomena
Characterization of animals, objects, and abstract concepts as possessing human traits, emotions, or intentions. The opposite bias, of not attributing feelings or thoughts to another person, is dehumanised perception, a type of objectification
Where an individual assumes that others have more traits in common with them than those others actually do
The tendency of perception to be affected by recurring thoughts
A tendency to react to disconfirming evidence by strengthening one's previous beliefs
Where candidates who are listed first often receive a small but statistically significant increase in votes compared to those listed in lower positions
This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, graphology, and some types of personality tests
Where a person who has performed a favor for someone is more likely to do another favor for that person than they would be if they had received a favor from that person
The tendency to misinterpret statistical experiments involving conditional probabilities
Bizarre material is better remembered than common material
Remembering the background of an image as being larger or more expansive than the foreground
The tendency for people to appear more attractive in a group than in isolation
The retention of few memories from before the age of four
The tendency to combine or compare research studies from the same source, or from sources that use the same methodologies or data
Choices affected if presented as extreme or average
This is an editorial planning heuristic, not a truth score. It rewards source trails, case studies, assessment items, path/check/prompt links, context hubs, comparison guides, kits, and hand-authored page modules.
Choosing the next enrichment pass, balancing flagship pages against long-tail coverage, and spotting pages that need concrete cases before they can teach well.
Deciding whether a bias is important, valid, or settled. It only measures how richly this site currently supports the entry.