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· No. 264
Non-Response Bias
The people who stay silent can change the answer as much as those who reply.
· No. 75
Theory of Mind
Other people act on what they know and believe, not on what you know.
· No. 27
Satisficing
Set a bar for good enough, and stop searching when something clears it.
· No. 267
Replication Crisis
A finding earns trust only when others repeat the work and get the same result.
· No. 245
Inductive Reasoning
Experience suggests what will happen next, but it can never promise it.
· No. 301
Hindsight Bias
Once we know how things turned out, the outcome seems to have been obvious all along.
· No. 315
Freudian Slip
A slip of the tongue can sometimes reveal what we really think.
· No. 76
False Consensus Effect
We think far more people share our views and choices than really do.
· No. 132
Dopamine Loop
The brain learns most from surprise rewards, and chases the cues that predict them.
· No. 313
Deprival/Superreaction Tendency
Losing something we have, or almost have, provokes a reaction far bigger than gaining it would.