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Bias Lab
A living encyclopedia of cognitive biases with examples and counter-strategies, and a probe that identifies your biases with a full report.
- Biases 27
- Probe tests 3
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What you get
- An encyclopedia of cognitive biases: each with its definition, examples from life, and practical ways to reduce it.
- An Arabic narration of each bias, and a short quiz that shows how well you understood it.
- A probe that asks about everyday situations and adapts to your answers until it names the bias that shows most in how you think.
- A report after each session: a reading of your result, with insights and steps to start from.
- Every result kept in your space, to come back to whenever you like.
What is inside
30 units
Biases
27 units
Style Over Substance Bias
The tendency to judge the quality of something by how it looks or how it is presented, rather than by its actual content or usefulness.
Ostrich Effect
Tuning out unpleasant or unwelcome information as a way of escaping anxiety or embarrassment.
Cognitive Miserliness
The human tendency to reach for the simplest, least effortful solution to a problem rather than a more rigorous one.
Need for Closure
The urge to reach a decision quickly in order to escape the discomfort of uncertainty, even at the cost of making a better choice.
Bandwagon Effect
Going along with the opinion or behavior of the majority simply because it is the majority — not because the argument is sound.
Ambiguity Aversion
A preference for options that come with clear, readily available information, even when those options are not objectively the best.
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Learned Helplessness
The creeping conviction that effort is pointless — a feeling that takes hold after repeated experiences of failure or frustration.
Action Bias
The impulse to act quickly just to feel that something is being done, even when that action is far from the best available response.
Planning Fallacy
The tendency to underestimate how much time, effort, or resources a task will actually require.
Defensive Pessimism
An inflated expectation of negative outcomes, functioning as a shield against disappointment or criticism.
Bias Blind Spot
The tendency to spot bias clearly in others while assuming we ourselves are less susceptible to it than they are.
Cognitive Dissonance Avoidance
The avoidance of situations or information that expose a conflict between what we believe and what is actually true.
Impression Management
Shaping decisions and behavior primarily around the impression they will create in other people's eyes.
Risk Aversion
Choosing security and a small but certain loss over opportunities that carry higher — if uncertain — returns.
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to seek out and favor information that confirms what we already believe, while ignoring or minimizing anything that contradicts it.
Procrastination
Putting off tasks and decisions despite knowing their importance and the cost of delay.
Anchoring Bias
The tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information encountered — the anchor — when making decisions.
Novelty Seeking
A persistent pull toward new and exciting options simply because they are novel, even when the familiar choice is safer or demonstrably better.
Availability Bias
Judging the likelihood of events based on how easily examples spring to mind, rather than on actual statistics.
Restraint Bias
An inflated confidence in one's ability to resist temptation or avoid harmful habits — leading people to voluntarily place themselves in situations that put tha…
Loss Aversion
The tendency to feel the pain of a loss far more acutely than the pleasure of an equivalent gain.
Status Quo Bias
The tendency to prefer things as they are and resist change simply by virtue of its being change.
Sunk Cost Fallacy
The tendency to press on with a failing endeavor because of the time, money, or effort already invested — even when continuing no longer makes rational sense.
Overconfidence Bias
The tendency to overestimate our own knowledge, abilities, or accuracy when predicting outcomes.
Actor-Observer Bias
The tendency to chalk up other people's actions to their character while explaining away our own behavior as a product of circumstances.
Halo Effect
The tendency for a general impression of someone to color our judgments about their specific traits.
Self-Serving Bias
The tendency to claim credit for our successes while blaming external factors for our failures.
Probe tests
3 units
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General Cognitive Bias Assessment (2)
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