My Rational Pony - Pages 61 - 70

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  • This effect is also known as a familiarity principle. It is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to prefer things merely because they are familiar with them.
    61. Mere-Exposure Effect
  • People tend to obey to authority just because someone is an authority figure. But how can people understand, who is an authority? Status signaling is often used for that. And one of the most used signals is clothing.
    62. Status Demonstration
  • Recurring thoughts tend to affect our perception. For example, patients with chronic pain show increased attention to information representing their concerns.
    63. Attentional Bias
  • This effect is similar to the confirmation bias. But in this case people tend to confirm their beliefs with evidence which actually contradicts these beliefs.
    64. Backfire Effect
  • People can easily find some clusters or structures in random data, because people tend to incorrectly predict the amount of variability. It is similar to pareidolia as another form of erroneous pattern recognition.
    65. Clustering Illusion
  • People tend to argue that “natural” is good, valid or justified. And that “unnatural” is bad in some way.
    66. Appeal to Nature
  • This cognitive bias may appear when people react to a choice in different ways depending on whether it is presented as a loss or as a gain.
    67. Framing Effect
  • This is a telescoping effect, one of memory biases. People tend to perceive distant events as being more recent than they are and recent events as being more remote than they are.
    68. Telescoping Effect
  • People tend to overestimate the intensity and the length of future emotional states.
    69. Impact Bias
  • This theory suggest that people tend to adjust their behavior in response to the perceived level of risk. When people sense great risk they become more careful and vice versa.
    70. Risk Compensation