Cognitive bias

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

• Affinity bias
• Bandwagon bias
• Behavioural economics
• Behavioural skills
• Choice supporting bias
• Confirmation bias
• Default bias
• Diversity
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• Emotional intelligence
• Executive coaching
• Hindsight bias
• Impostor syndrome
• Maslow's hammer
• Objectivity
• Optimism bias
• Reactance bias
• Self-investment bias
• Self-serving bias
• Social bias
• Source bias
• Status quo bias
• Working effectively with others