Egocentric bias
The tendency to remember the past in self-serving ways and overweight one's own perspective.
Causal AttributionSelf-Perspective
Learning Path
People Judgment
A path for social perception, hiring, leadership, conflict, and the fast trait inferences people make about one another.
6 biases
Foundational
45 min
By the end of this path
- Catch the fastest routes from behavior to trait verdict.
- Separate social impression from evidence about motive, character, or capacity.
- Build a stronger baseline before entering harder conflict and identity-heavy cases.
How to study it
Work the pages in order, then loop back and compare which distortions happened earliest, which ones protected the first impression, and which ones interfered with later learning.
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Biases in this path
This is a deliberate sequence, not just a themed pile. Start at the top if the context is new to you.
Fundamental attribution error
The tendency to explain other people's behavior too quickly in terms of character while underweighting situational pressures and constraints.
Causal AttributionSelf-PerspectiveTeams & managementMedia & politics
Halo effect
The tendency for one salient positive or negative impression to spill over into unrelated judgments about a person, product, or institution.
Opinion ReportingAssociationTeams & managementPersonal decisions
Implicit bias
The underlying attitudes and stereotypes that people unconsciously attribute to another person or group of people that affect how they understand and engage with them.
Hypothesis AssessmentOutcome
Confirmation bias
The tendency to notice, seek, and remember evidence that supports the story you already prefer more readily than evidence that threatens it.
Hypothesis AssessmentOutcomeMedia & politicsResearch & evidence
Negativity bias
The tendency to give bad news, threats, criticism, and losses more psychological weight than equally sized positives.
Opinion ReportingRecallAssociationBaselineMedia & politicsTeams & management