cognitive biases etc. Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:13:48 GMT 2022-06-22T09:13:48Z <span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">A&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">cognitive bias</strong><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;is a systematic pattern of deviation from&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Norm (philosophy)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(philosophy)">norm</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;or rationality in judgment.&nbsp;</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Individuals create their own "subjective&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Social reality" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_reality">social reality</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Objectivity (philosophy)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(philosophy)">objective</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;input, may dictate their&nbsp;</span><a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Behaviour" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviour">behaviour</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;in the social world.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Irrationality" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrationality">irrationality</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Some cognitive&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Bias" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias">biases</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;are presumably adaptive. Cognitive biases may lead to more effective actions in a given context.&nbsp;</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Furthermore, allowing cognitive biases enable faster decisions which can be desirable when timeliness is more valuable than accuracy, as illustrated in&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Heuristics in judgment and decision-making" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision-making">heuristics</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">.<br /><br /></span>Definitely check the&nbsp;<a style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: italic;" title="" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases">List of cognitive biases</a> Info