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Many of these biases are studied for how they affect belief formation, business

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Bandwagon effect   the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink and herd behaviour.  
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Base rate fallacy   ignoring available statistical data in favor of particulars.  
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Bias blind spot   the tendency not to compensate for one's own cognitive biases.  
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Choice-supportive bias   the tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were.  
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Confirmation bias   the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.  
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Congruence bias   the tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of possible alternative hypotheses.  
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Contrast effect   the enhancement or diminishing of a weight or other measurement when compared with a recently observed contrasting object.  
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Déformation professionnelle   the tendency to look at things according to the conventions of one's own profession, forgetting any broader point of view.  
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Denomination effect   the tendency to spend more money when it is denominated in small amounts (e.g. coins) than large amounts (e.g. bills).  
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Distinction bias   the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.  
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Endowment effect   "the fact that people often demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it".  
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Experimenter's or Expectation bias   tendency for experimenters to believe/certify/publish data that agree with expectations for outcome of an experiment & to disbelieve/discard/downgrade weightings for data that appear to conflict with those expectations.  
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Extraordinarity bias   the tendency to value an object more than others in the same category as a result of an extraordinarity of that object that does not, in itself, change the value.  
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Extreme aversion   the tendency to avoid extremes, being more likely to choose an option if it is the intermediate choice.  
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Focusing effect   prediction bias occurring when people place too much importance on one aspect of an event; causes error in accurately predicting the utility of a future outcome.  
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Framing   Using an approach or description of the situation or issue that is too narrow. Also framing effect  
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Hyperbolic discounting   the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs, where the tendency increases the closer to the present both payoffs are.  
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Illusion of control   the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes that they clearly cannot.  
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Impact bias   the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of the impact of future feeling states.  
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Information bias   the tendency to seek information even when it cannot affect action.  
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Irrational escalation   the tendency to make irrational decisions based upon rational decisions in the past or to justify actions already taken.  
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Loss aversion   "the disutility of giving up an object is greater than the utility associated with acquiring it". (see also sunk cost effects and Endowment effect).  
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Mere exposure effect   the tendency for people to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them.  
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Moral credential effect   the tendency of a track record of non-prejudice to increase subsequent prejudice.  
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Need for closure   the need to reach a verdict in important matters; to have an answer and to escape the feeling of doubt and uncertainty. The personal context (time or social pressure) might increase this bias.  
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Neglect of probability   the tendency to completely disregard probability when making a decision under uncertainty.  
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Not Invented Here   the tendency to ignore that a product or solution already exists, because its source is seen as an "enemy" or as "inferior".  
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Omission bias   the tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral, than equally harmful omissions (inactions).  
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Outcome bias   the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.  
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Planning fallacy   the tendency to underestimate task-completion times.  
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Post-purchase rationalization   the tendency to persuade oneself through rational argument that a purchase was a good value.  
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Pseudocertainty effect   the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes.  
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Reactance   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.  
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Restraint bias   the tendency to overestimate one's ability to show restraint in the face of temptation.  
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Selective perception   the tendency for expectations to affect perception.  
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Semmelweis reflex   the tendency to reject new evidence that contradicts an established paradigm.  
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Status quo bias   the tendency for people to like things to stay relatively the same (see also loss aversion, endowment effect, and system justification).  
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Von Restorff effect   the tendency for an item that "stands out like a sore thumb" to be more likely to be remembered than other items.  
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Wishful thinking   the formation of beliefs and the making of decisions according to what is pleasing to imagine instead of by appeal to evidence or rationality.  
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Zero-risk bias   preference for reducing a small risk to zero over a greater reduction in a larger risk.  
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