Category:Cognitive biases
Here is a list of articles in the Cognitive biases category of the Philosophy portal. A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.
Although it may seem like such misperceptions would be aberrations, biases can help humans find commonalities and shortcuts to assist in the navigation of common situations in life.
Some cognitive biases are presumably adaptive. Cognitive biases may lead to more effective actions in a given context. Furthermore, allowing cognitive biases enables faster decisions which can be desirable when timeliness is more valuable than accuracy, as illustrated in heuristics. Other cognitive biases are a "by-product" of human processing limitations, resulting from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms (bounded rationality), impact of individual's constitution and biological state (see embodied cognition), or simply from a limited capacity for information processing.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- Cognitive inertia (42 P)
M
- Memory biases (43 P)
Pages in category "Cognitive biases"
The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 263 total.
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- Philosophy:Scarcity heuristic
- Philosophy:Scope neglect
- Philosophy:Selective omission
- Philosophy:Selective perception
- Self-deception
- Philosophy:Self-defeating prophecy
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Philosophy:Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Philosophy:Self-licensing
- Philosophy:Self-persuasion
- Philosophy:Self-propaganda
- Philosophy:Self-reference effect
- Philosophy:Self-serving bias
- Philosophy:Serial-position effect
- Philosophy:Shooting bias
- Philosophy:Social comparison bias
- Philosophy:Social facilitation
- Philosophy:Social influence bias
- Philosophy:Social perception
- Philosophy:Social projection
- Philosophy:Source bias
- Philosophy:Spacing effect
- Philosophy:Spiral of silence
- Philosophy:Spotlight effect
- Philosophy:Status quo bias
- Philosophy:Stereotype
- Philosophy:Straight and Crooked Thinking
- Philosophy:Stroop effect
- Subadditivity effect
- Philosophy:Subject-expectancy effect
- Philosophy:Subjective validation
- Sunk cost
- Philosophy:Surrogation
- Survivorship bias