Confirmation bias - Favoring information that conforms to your existing beliefs and discounting evidence that does not conform, Availability heuristic - Placing greater value on information that comes to your mind quickly. You give greater credence to this information and tend to overestimate the probability and likelihood of similar things happening in the future, Halo effect - Your overall impression of a person influences how you feel and think about his or her character. This especially applies to physical attractiveness influencing how you rate their other qualities., self-serving bias - This is the tendency to blame external forces when bad things happen and give yourself credit when good things happen., attentional bias - This is the tendency to pay attention to some things while simultaneously ignoring others., Misinformation effect - This is the tendency for post-event information to interfere with the memory of the original event., False consensus effect - This is the tendency to overestimate how much other people agree with you., Optimism bias - This bias leads you to believe that you are less likely to suffer from misfortune and more likely to attain success than your peers.,

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