Biases from Needing to Act Quickly

Availability Heuristic

The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events that are more easily recalled from memory, often because they are vivid or recent.

Bandwagon Effect

The tendency to do or believe things because many other people do or believe the same, regardless of one's own independent assessment.

Base-Rate Fallacy

The tendency to ignore general statistical information and instead focus on specific, but less reliable, information when making a probability judgment.

Halo Effect

The tendency for an overall impression of a person (or product, etc.) to influence how we feel and think about their character or properties (e.g., an attractive person is also assumed to be intelligent).