Anaconda, Arguing, and Bad: 20 COGNITIVE BIASES THAT SCREW UP YOUR DECISIONS  2. Availability heuristic.  3. Bandwagon effect.  The probability of one person  Failing to recognize your own  cognitive biases is a bias in  itself. People notice cognitive  and motivational biases much  first piece of informationt  hear. In a salary negotiation,  whoever makes the first offer  establishes a range of  reasonable possibilities in  each person's mind.  a belief increases  in  is available to them. A person  might argue that smoking is not  based on the number of people  who hold that belief. This is a  powerful form of  and is reason why meetings  someone who lived to 100 and  5. Choice-supportive bias 6. Clustering illusion.  7. Confirmation bias  8. Conservatism bias  This is the tendency to see  patterns in random events.  It is key to various gambling  fallacies, like the idea that red  is more or less likely to turn up  on a roulette table after a string  We tend to listen only to  information that confirms our  When you choose something,  you tend to feel positive about  it, even if that choice has flaws.  Like how you think your dog is  awesome-even if it bites  Where people favor prior  evidence over new evidence or  information that has emerged  People were slow to accept  that the Earth was round  many reasons it's so hard to  have an intelligent conversation  about climate c  mai  earlier understanding that the  9. Information bias  10. Ostrich effect.  11. Outcome bias  12. Overconfidence  The tendency to seek  information when it does not  affect action. More information  is not always better. With less  information, people can oft  make more accurate predictions  The decision to ignore  Some of us are too confident  about our abilities, and this  causes us to take greater risks  in our daily lives. Experts are  more prone to this bias than  on  angerous or negative  the outcome  rather than how  one's head in the sand, like  an ostrich. Research suggests  tha
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