Mechanism family · v2 taxonomy
Attention & information
Patterns that affect what gets noticed, sampled, searched for, or omitted from consideration.
Reviewed mapping
16 canonical entries currently belong to this family.
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Availability HeuristicAnthropocentric Thinking – when everything is judged by human standardsthe tendency to use human experiences as the basis for understanding everything else, even if it operates on completely different principles.Read entry Availability HeuristicAnthropomorphism – when nonhuman systems are read as humanlikeAnthropomorphism is the attribution of humanlike characteristics, intentions, emotions, or mental states to nonhuman agents. It is a common psychological process, not automaticallyRead entry Availability HeuristicAttentional Bias – when your thoughts control what you seethe tendency to focus on information related to your current thoughts or concerns while ignoring everything else.Read entry False PriorsAutomation Bias – when automated advice replaces independent checkingAutomation Bias is the tendency to let automated cues or recommendations replace vigilant information seeking and verification. It can create commission errors, where a person follRead entry Heuristic BiasAvailability Heuristic – when easy-to-recall examples shape frequency judgmentsAvailability Heuristic is the use of how easily examples or scenarios come to mind as one cue for judging how common or likely something is. This shortcut can be useful when accessRead entry Availability HeuristicFrequency Illusion – when something new suddenly appears everywherea cognitive bias that makes us think something appears more frequently than before, when in reality we’ve just started noticing it.Read entry Availability HeuristicImplicit Association – when your brain links things faster than you realizethe effect where the speed of linking words depends on how closely they seem related, even if the connection is subjective.Read entry Cognitive BiasInformation Bias – when you seek information that won’t change your decisionthe tendency to seek data even when it won’t impact your choice or actions.Read entry Cognitive BiasOstrich Effect – when you ignore a problem, hoping it will go awaythe tendency to ignore negative information to avoid discomfort.Read entry Cognitive BiasPlant Blindness – when you fail to notice the green world around youthe tendency to ignore plants in the environment and underestimate their importance to life on Earth.Read entry Availability HeuristicQuantification Bias – when only measurable things seem to matterthe tendency to give more weight to measurable data while ignoring what can’t be easily quantified.Read entry Cognitive BiasRecency Illusion – when you think something is new just because you recently noticed itthe tendency to believe something is new just because you’ve only recently become aware of it, even if it has existed for decades or centuries.Read entry Availability HeuristicSalience Bias – when the striking overshadows the relevantthe tendency to concentrate on the most prominent details, even when they are not the most important.Read entry Availability HeuristicSelection Bias – when the sample doesn’t reflect realityan error that occurs when data is not randomly selected and doesn’t reflect reality.Read entry Availability HeuristicSurvivorship Bias – when you only see the winnersthe tendency to focus on those who ‘made it’ while ignoring those who didn’t because they’re invisible.Read entry Availability HeuristicWell-Travelled Road Effect – when familiar routes feel fasterthe tendency to underestimate travel time on familiar routes and overestimate it on unfamiliar ones.Read entry
