Cognitive Biases
The systematic errors baked into how the mind judges, remembers, and decides
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Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises
Raymond Nickerson · Paper
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Anchoring)
Amos Tversky & Daniel Kahneman · Paper
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Availability)
Amos Tversky & Daniel Kahneman · Paper
The Psychology of Sunk Cost
Hal Arkes & Catherine Blumer · Paper
Unskilled and Unaware of It
Justin Kruger & David Dunning · Paper
Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky · Paper
A Constant Error in Psychological Ratings
Edward Thorndike · Paper
I Knew It Would Happen: Remembered Probabilities of Once-Future Things
Baruch Fischhoff & Ruth Beyth · Paper
The Zeigarnik Effect
Bluma Zeigarnik · Psychology
Steelmanning
Eliezer Yudkowsky · Concept
Motivated Stopping
Eliezer Yudkowsky · Concept
Hyperbolic Discounting
Richard Herrnstein · Psychology
Eight Cognitive Laws Worth Knowing Early
Curious Minds · X (Twitter) thread
Nine Psychology Concepts Marketers Exploit
Pierre Herubel · Infographic