Particular Cognitive Biases

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Cognitive Biases A through F
Association Principle (cognitive bias)
Authoritarianism
Bias Toward Immediate Threats
Confirmation Bias (Seeking Only Supporting Evidence)
Disconfirmation Bias (Believing Only Supporting Evidence)
False Dichotomies (Choices)
Favoring Style Over Substance (Fashion Over Function)
Fundamental Attribution Error
Cognitive Biases G through N
Group Mentality (tendency to follow the group)
Hagbard's Law
Herd Behavior
Hindsight Bias
Implicit (Unconscious) Racial Bias
Lead-Time Bias in Earlier Cancer Screening
Loss Aversion
Mere Exposure Effect
Mere Measurement Effect
More Compassion for an Individual than for Many
Myside Bias (Favoring One's Own Group; Us vs Them)
Not Learning from History (being doomed to repeat it)
Cognitive Biases P through Z
Placebo Effect
Reductionism
Rejecting New Ideas
Rejecting Negative Information
Repeated Ideas Start Sounding More Believable
Stability Leads to Overconfidence, Thereby to Instability
Sunk Cost Fallacy (not giving up on a bad investment)