Cognitive Bias

Everyone in your friend group hates Marvel movies so you think perhaps your love of the movie is because you have bad taste.

• Optimism Bias

• Groupthink

• Negativity Bias

• Declinism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

You unfairly favor those who belong to your group.

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy

• In-Group Bias

• The Bystander Effect

• The Spotlight Effect

Your judgments are influenced by what springs most easily to mind.

• Belief Bias

• The Dunning-Kruger Effect

• The Availability Heuristic

• The Curse of Knowledge

You were always taught that the US has high taxes, but you have never actually done any research on your own.

• The Halo Effect

• Groupthink

• The Barnum Effect

• Belief Bias

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

You allow yourself to be unduly influenced by context and delivery.

• In-Group Bias

• The Framing Effect

• Fundamental Attribution Error

• Just World Hypothesis

You judge others on their character, but yourself on the situation.

• The Halo Effect

• In-Group Bias

• Reactance

• Fundamental Attribution Error

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

You'd rather do the opposite of what someone is trying to make you do.

• Reactance

• The Spotlight Effect

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy

• The Availability Heuristic

You assume that everyone that works hard can become rich, and only laziness is the only reason for poverty.

• The Bystander Effect

• The Placebo Effect

• Just-World Hypothesis

• In-Group Bias

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

If you believe you're taking medicine it can sometimes 'work' even if it's fake.

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy

• The Spotlight Effect

• The Placebo Effect

• Reactance

Which type of cognitive bias involves relying too heavily on the first piece of information you come across?

• Anchoring bias

• Blind-spot bias

• Confirmation bias

• Negativity bias