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- The Confirmation Bias: Why People See What They Want to See https://effectiviology.com/confirmation-bias/ 2 comments
- The confirmation bias causes people to search for information that confirms their beliefs and to ignore information that contradicts them. This prevalent cognitive bias could explain why people continue to believe in pseudoscientific myths, long those myths have been refuted. https://effectiviology.com/confirmation-bias/ 4 comments cogsci
Linking pages
- The Halo Effect: Why People Often Judge a Book by Its Cover – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/halo-effect/ 148 comments
- The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don’t Always Change Minds – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/backfire-effect-facts-dont-change-minds/ 22 comments
- The Ostrich Effect: Why and How People Avoid Information – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/ostrich-effect/ 13 comments
- Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence that They Dislike – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/cherry-picking/ 13 comments
- The Just-World Hypothesis: On the Belief that Everyone Gets What They Deserve – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/just-world/ 12 comments
- Jumping to Conclusions: When People Decide Based on Insufficient Information – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/jumping-to-conclusions/ 10 comments
- The False-Consensus Effect: People Overestimate How Much Others Are Like Them – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/false-consensus/ 10 comments
- Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Remember that Not Everything in the News Is True – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/ 1 comment
- The Law of Small Numbers: Overestimating the Representativeness of Small Samples – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/law-of-small-numbers/ 0 comments
- The Availability Cascade: How Information Spreads on a Large Scale – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/availability-cascade/ 0 comments
- Brandolini’s Law: The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/brandolinis-law/ 0 comments
- The Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy: “After This, Therefore Because of This” – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/post-hoc/ 0 comments
- The Projection Bias: People Underestimate How Much They Will Change – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/projection-bias/ 0 comments
Linked pages
- The Overkill Backfire Effect: On The Danger of Presenting Too Much Evidence – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/overkill-backfire-effect/ 760 comments
- The Halo Effect: Why People Often Judge a Book by Its Cover – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/halo-effect/ 148 comments
- The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don’t Always Change Minds – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/backfire-effect-facts-dont-change-minds/ 22 comments
- Cherry Picking: When People Ignore Evidence that They Dislike – Effectiviology https://effectiviology.com/cherry-picking/ 13 comments
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