Cognitive Biases

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What is a cognitive bias?

A cognitive bias is an illogical,systematic error in thinking that negatively affects decision making

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Why can biases affect us?

It can often be quite misleading

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What is confirmation bias?

A type of cognitive bias that involves favouring information that confirms prerequisite beliefs or biases

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What is availability heuristic?

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that comes to one's mind when evaluating a specific topic,concept,method or decision

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What study covers confirmation bias?

Ask and Granhag(2005)

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What study covers availability heuristics?

Tversky and Kahneman(1973) & Chou and Edge(2012)