26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong

We all have biases. What are yours? Most, if not all, of them will be found in this handy list of cognitive biases…

• Bandwagon effect – the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias.
• Bias blind spot – the tendency not to compensate for one’s own cognitive biases.
• Choice-supportive bias – the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were.
• Confirmation bias – the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions.

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