Association
The mind overweights resemblance, vividness, proximity, or intuitive linkage.
83 biases
What feels connected here mainly because it is salient, familiar, or easy to pair mentally?
Patterns
Five recurring ways judgment slips
The pattern pages are a second axis of comparison. They are especially helpful when several different biases share the same psychological shape even across different categories.
Baseline
Judgment is pulled by the wrong starting point, default frame, or prior expectation.
36 biases
What baseline, anchor, or prior frame is steering this judgment before the evidence is even assessed?
Inertia
Beliefs, habits, or commitments resist updating even when better movement is available.
17 biases
What is staying in place mainly because movement is costly, awkward, or identity-threatening?
Outcome
The result of an event bends how the process, evidence, memory, or explanation is interpreted afterward.
62 biases
How is the known result warping the way the earlier judgment or evidence now feels?
Self-Perspective
The bias intensifies when ego, identity, ownership, or asymmetry between self and others enters the picture.
45 biases
What changes in this judgment when the person involved is me, my group, or someone I already identify with?