# Cognitive Biases

## Lists

[The Cognitive Bias Codex](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg) - [by Buster Benson](https://busterbenson.com/piles/cognitive-biases/). [In article form](https://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/the-cognitive-bias-codex-a-visual-of-180-cognitive-biases/).

[Pocket Biases](https://pocket-biases.glideapp.io/?ref=producthunt) - "Every cognitive bias in your pocket."

![https://xkcd.com/2472/](/files/-Mbb4ZVPsjC-RNLgMRQu)

## Singles

[Anchoring (cognitive bias) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_\(cognitive_bias\))

[Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence)

[Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism#Psychology)

[Appeal to probability - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_probability)

[Argument from fallacy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy)

[Attentional bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_bias)

[Authority bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_bias)

[Automation bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias)

[Availability heuristic - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic)

[Baader–Meinhof phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion)

[Bandwagon effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect)

[Base rate fallacy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy)

[Bias blind spot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot)

[Bizarreness effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarreness_effect)

[Cheerleader effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerleader_effect)

[Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias)

[Clustering illusion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion)

[Confabulation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation)

[Confirmation bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias)

[Congruence bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruence_bias)

[Conservatism (belief revision) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_\(belief_revision\))

[Consistency bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Consistency_bias)

[Context effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_effect)

[Continued influence effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#continued_influence_effect)

[Contrast effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_effect)

[Cross-race effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect)

[Cue-dependent forgetting - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue-dependent_forgetting)

[Curse of knowledge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge)

[Declinism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declinism)

[Denomination effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denomination_effect)

[Distinction bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_bias)

[Empathy gap - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap)

[Essentialism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism)

[Extrinsic incentives bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrinsic_incentives_bias)

[Framing effect (psychology) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_\(psychology\))

[Frequency illusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion)

[Functional fixedness - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness)

[Gambler's fallacy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy)

[Group attribution error - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_attribution_error)

[Halo effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect)

[Hindsight bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias)

[Hot hand - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_hand)

[Humor effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Humor_effect)

[Illusion of asymmetric insight - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight)

[Illusion of external agency - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_external_agency)

[Illusion of transparency - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency)

[Illusion of validity - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_validity)

[Illusory correlation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_correlation)

[Illusory truth effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect)

![https://www.savagechickens.com/2021/07/the-conspiracy.html](/files/-MeAgeRi9agv4tXBzh_Y)

[Impact bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_bias)

[In-group favoritism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism)

[Insensitivity to sample size - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitivity_to_sample_size)

[Just-world hypothesis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis)

[The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two)

[Masked-man fallacy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masked-man_fallacy)

[Mental accounting - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_accounting)

[Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect)

[Money illusion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_illusion)

[Mood congruence - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_congruence)

[Moral luck - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck)

[Murphy's law - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law)

[Normalcy bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias)

[Naïve cynicism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_cynicism)

[Naïve realism (psychology) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_\(psychology\))

[Negativity bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias)

[Neglect of probability - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability)

[Not invented here - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here)

[Observer-expectancy effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect)

[Omission bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias)

[Ostrich effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_effect)

[Outcome bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias)

[Out-group homogeneity - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity)

[Pareidolia - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia)

[Pessimism bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias#Pessimism_bias)

[Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_superiority_effect)

[Placebo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo)

[Planning fallacy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy)

[Positivity effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivity_effect)

[Pro-innovation bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-innovation_bias)

[Projection bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_forecasting#Projection_bias)

[Reactive devaluation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_devaluation)

[Recency illusion - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_illusion)

[Restraint bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraint_bias)

[Rosy retrospection - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection)

[Selective perception - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception)

[Self-licensing - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing)

[Self-reference effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference_effect)

[Semmelweis reflex - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex)

[Spotlight effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect)

[Stereotype - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype)

[Subadditivity effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subadditivity_effect)

[Subjective validation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_validation)

[Survivorship bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias)

[Telescoping effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_effect)

[Time-saving bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-saving_bias)

[Ultimate attribution error - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error)

[Von Restorff effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect)

[Weber–Fechner law - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law)

[Well travelled road effect - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_travelled_road_effect)

[Zero-sum thinking - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking)

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