Forer Effect or Barnum Effect
The tendency to believe that vague general descriptions are accurate depictions of one’s personality.
Entries by Tom Waters
Framing Effect
Arriving at different conclusions from the same evidence because of the way the evidence is presented.
Humor Effect
Funny things are remembered better than normal things.
Frequency Illusion
When learning something new, we tend to start seeing it constantly in our everyday lives.
Halo Effect
The tendency for one trait to color the way a person’s other, unrelated traits are viewed.
Hindsight Bias
When people remember events as being more predictable than they really were.
Hyperbolic Discounting
The tendency to reduce the perceived value of a reward the longer you have to wait for it.
Illusion of Control
The tendency for people to assume they can affect outcomes that are actually beyond their control.
Illusory Correlation
Creating a relationship between two concepts when no such relationship actually exists.
Information Bias
The tendency to seek more information even after there is no more useful impact on the decision.