Cognitive bias - Topics

Dread and probability neglect: why people fear plane crashes over cars Confirmation bias and emotional investment: why people defend beliefs they have staked feelings on Negativity bias: why bad events stick harder than good ones Anchoring and anxiety: how the first number you hear traps you Loss aversion: why losses loom larger than equivalent gains Mood-congruent memory: why you recall failures when you are sad Negativity bias: why criticism sticks and praise slides off Why we remember every time the charm worked and forget the rest Why positive emotions widen attention: eye-tracking evidence Hindsight bias and the story you tell about how you ended up here Affect heuristic: how a good or bad feeling shortcuts a decision The halo effect: how one good impression rewrites everything else Do anxious people read neutral faces as angry? Affective realism: why what you feel seems obviously true Prediction error: why surprise is how the brain learns Why a bad mood makes decisions look different Do negative emotions sharpen judgment or cloud it Why we trust confident people we should not Is the pursuit of happiness self-defeating? Research on goal fixation Sunk cost fallacy: why people stay in bad relationships and bad projects Emotional framing: how the same fact phrased two ways changes the decision The positivity effect in attention and memory: how mood steers cognition Can animals be optimistic? Cognitive bias tests from bees to dogs When settling for good enough is the right call Hope vs blind optimism: why only one predicts action Why smart people fall for obviously bad arguments in their own field How depression distorts memory and self-perception The marshmallow test measured anticipation as much as willpower The optimism bias: why most people think they are above average at avoiding harm In-group bias and emotional distance: why harm to strangers feels abstract