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''Behavioural skills''.
''Behavioural skills''.


Cognitive biases are distortions in daily-decision making processes.
Cognitive biases are distortions in daily decision-making processes.


Cognitive biases include a number of social biases, for example affinity bias.
Cognitive biases include a number of social biases, for example affinity bias.
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* [[Framing effect]]
* [[Framing effect]]
* [[Groupthink]]
* [[Groupthink]]
* [[Home bias]]
* [[Hindsight bias]]
* [[Hindsight bias]]
* [[Homo economicus]]
* [[Impostor syndrome]]
* [[Impostor syndrome]]
* [[Maslow's hammer]]
* [[Maslow's hammer]]

Latest revision as of 12:13, 8 November 2025

Behavioural skills.

Cognitive biases are distortions in daily decision-making processes.

Cognitive biases include a number of social biases, for example affinity bias.


Cognitive bias is more likely in situations where one or more of the following is present:

  • Lack of information
  • Ambiguous information
  • Too much information, leading to cognitive overload
  • Being required to make decisions quickly
  • Being reliant on flawed memory


See also