cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet.json

{
  "name":"biases",
  "children":[
    {
      "name":"1. Too Much Information",
      "children":[
        {
          "name":"We notice things already primed in memory or repeated often.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Availability heuristic"
            },
            {
              "name":"Attentional bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusory truth effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Mere exposure effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Context effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Cue-dependent forgetting"
            },
            {
              "name":"Mood-congruent memory bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Frequency illusion"
            },
            {
              "name":"Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon"
            },
            {
              "name":"Empathy gap"
            },
            {
              "name":"Omission bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Base rate fallacy"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"Bizarre/funny/visually-striking/anthropomorphic things stick out more than non-bizarre/unfunny things.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Bizarreness effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Humor effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Von Restorff effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Picture superiority effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Self-relevance effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Negativity bias"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We notice when something has changed.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Anchoring"
            },
            {
              "name":"Conservatism"
            },
            {
              "name":"Contrast effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Distinction bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Focusing effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Framing effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Money illusion"
            },
            {
              "name":"Weber–Fechner law"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We are drawn to details that confirm our own existing beliefs",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Confirmation bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Congruence bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Post-purchase rationalization"
            },
            {
              "name":"Choice-supportive bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Selective perception"
            },
            {
              "name":"Observer-expectancy effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Experimenter's bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Observer effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Expectation bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Ostrich effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Subjective validation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Continued influence effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Semmelweis reflex"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We notice flaws in others more easily than flaws in ourselves.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Bias blind spot"
            },
            {
              "name":"Naïve cynicism"
            },
            {
              "name":"Naïve realism"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name":"2. Not Enough Meaning",
      "children":[
        {
          "name":"We find stories and patterns even in sparse data",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Confabulation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Clustering illusion"
            },
            {
              "name":"Insensitivity to sample size"
            },
            {
              "name":"Neglect of probability"
            },
            {
              "name":"Anecdotal fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusion of validity"
            },
            {
              "name":"Masked man fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Recency illusion"
            },
            {
              "name":"Gambler's fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Hot-hand fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusory correlation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Pareidolia"
            },
            {
              "name":"Anthropomorphism"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We fill in characteristics from stereotypes, generalities, and prior histories",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Group attribution error"
            },
            {
              "name":"Ultimate attribution error"
            },
            {
              "name":"Stereotyping"
            },
            {
              "name":"Essentialism"
            },
            {
              "name":"Functional fixedness"
            },
            {
              "name":"Moral credential effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Just-world hypothesis"
            },
            {
              "name":"Argument from fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Authority bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Automation bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Bandwagon effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Placebo effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We imagine things and people we're familiar with or fond of as better",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Out-group homogeneity bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Cross-race effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"In-group bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Halo effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Cheerleader effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Positivity effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Not invented here"
            },
            {
              "name":"Reactive devaluation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Well-traveled road effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We simplify probabilities and numbers to make them easier to think about",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Mental accounting"
            },
            {
              "name":"Appeal to probability fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Normalcy bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Murphy's Law"
            },
            {
              "name":"Zero sum bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Survivorship bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Subadditivity effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Denomination effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Magic number 7+-2"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We think we know what other people are thinking",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Illusion of transparency"
            },
            {
              "name":"Curse of knowledge"
            },
            {
              "name":"Spotlight effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Extrinsic incentive error"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusion of external agency"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusion of asymmetric insight"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We project our current mindset and assumptions onto the past and future",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Telescoping effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Rosy retrospection"
            },
            {
              "name":"Hindsight bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Outcome bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Moral luck"
            },
            {
              "name":"Declinism"
            },
            {
              "name":"Impact bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Pessimism bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Planning fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Time-saving bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Pro-innovation bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Projection bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Restraint bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Self-consistency bias"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name":"3. Need To Act Fast",
      "children":[
        {
          "name":"To act, we must be confident we can make an impact and feel what we do is important",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Overconfidence effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Social desirability bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Third-person effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"False consensus effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Hard-easy effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Lake Wobegone effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Dunning-Kruger effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Egocentric bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Optimism bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Forer effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Barnum effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Self-serving bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Actor-observer bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusion of control"
            },
            {
              "name":"Illusory superiority"
            },
            {
              "name":"Fundamental attribution error"
            },
            {
              "name":"Defensive attribution hypothesis"
            },
            {
              "name":"Trait ascription bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Effort justification"
            },
            {
              "name":"Risk compensation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Peltzman effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"To stay focused, we favor the immediate, relatable thing in front of us",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Hyperbolic discounting"
            },
            {
              "name":"Appeal to novelty"
            },
            {
              "name":"Identifiable victim effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"To get anything done, we tend to complete things we've invested time & energy in.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Sunk cost fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Irrational escalation"
            },
            {
              "name":"Escalation of commitment"
            },
            {
              "name":"Generation effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Loss aversion"
            },
            {
              "name":"IKEA effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Unit bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Zero-risk bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Disposition effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Pseudocertainty effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Processing difficulty effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Endowment effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Backfire effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"To avoid mistakes, we tend to preserve our autonomy and group status, and avoid irreversible decisions.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"System justification"
            },
            {
              "name":"Reverse psychology"
            },
            {
              "name":"Reactance"
            },
            {
              "name":"Decoy effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Social comparison bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Status quo bias"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We favor options that appear simple or have more complete information over more complex, ambiguous options.",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Ambiguity bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Information bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Belief bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Rhyme as reason effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Bike-shedding effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Law of Triviality"
            },
            {
              "name":"Delmore effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Conjunction fallacy"
            },
            {
              "name":"Occam's razor"
            },
            {
              "name":"Less-is-better effect"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name":"4. What Should We Remember?",
      "children":[
        {
          "name":"We edit and reinforce some memories after the fact",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Misattribution of memory"
            },
            {
              "name":"Source confusion"
            },
            {
              "name":"Cryptomnesia"
            },
            {
              "name":"False memory"
            },
            {
              "name":"Suggestibility"
            },
            {
              "name":"Spacing effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We discard specifics to form generalities",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Implicit associations"
            },
            {
              "name":"Implicit stereotypes"
            },
            {
              "name":"Stereotypical bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Prejudice"
            },
            {
              "name":"Negativity bias"
            },
            {
              "name":"Fading affect bias"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We reduce events and lists to their key elements",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Peak–end rule"
            },
            {
              "name":"Leveling and sharpening"
            },
            {
              "name":"Misinformation effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Serial recall effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"List-length effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Duration neglect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Modality effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Memory inhibition"
            },
            {
              "name":"Primacy effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Recency effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Part-list cueing effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Serial position effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Suffix effect"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name":"We store memories differently based on how they were experienced",
          "children":[
            {
              "name":"Levels of processing effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Absent-mindedness"
            },
            {
              "name":"Testing effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Next-in-line effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Google effect"
            },
            {
              "name":"Tip of the tongue phenomenon"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}