Top 10 Common Faults in Human Thought:
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- Gambler’s Fallacy - The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not.
- Reactivity - Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed.
- Pareidolia - Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant.
- Self-fulfilling prophecy - Self-fulfilling prophecy is engaging in behaviors that obtain results that confirm existing attitudes
- The Halo effect - The Halo effect is the tendency for an individual’s positive or negative trait to “spill over” to other areas of their personality in others’ perceptions of them.
- Herd mentality - Herd mentality is the tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.
- Reactance - Reactance is the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain your freedom of choice.
- Hyperbolic discounting - Hyperbolic discounting is the tendency for people to prefer a smaller, immediate payoff over a larger, delayed payoff.
- Escalation of commitment - Escalation of commitment is the tendency for people to continue to support previously unsuccessful endeavors.
- The Placebo effect - The Placebo effect is when an ineffectual substance that is believed to have healing properties produces the desired effect.
I just found this on Stumbleupon oh my god. I’m guilty of basically all of these.
Ugh I’m such a nerd I find stuff like this so interesting.
