Top 10 Common Faults in Human Thought:

markologist: myscientificbest: thelittlestgiant:

  1. Gambler’s Fallacy - The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not.
  2. Reactivity - Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed.
  3. Pareidolia - Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant.
  4. Self-fulfilling prophecy - Self-fulfilling prophecy is engaging in behaviors that obtain results that confirm existing attitudes
  5. The Halo effect - The Halo effect is the tendency for an individual’s positive or negative trait to “spill over” to other areas of their personality in others’ perceptions of them.
  6. Herd mentality - Herd mentality is the tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.
  7. Reactance - Reactance is the urge to do the opposite of what someone wants you to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain your freedom of choice.
  8. Hyperbolic discounting - Hyperbolic discounting is the tendency for people to prefer a smaller, immediate payoff over a larger, delayed payoff.
  9. Escalation of commitment - Escalation of commitment is the tendency for people to continue to support previously unsuccessful endeavors.
  10. The Placebo effect - The Placebo effect is when an ineffectual substance that is believed to have healing properties produces the desired effect.

I just found this on Stumbleupon oh my god. I’m guilty of basically all of these.

Ugh I’m such a nerd I find stuff like this so interesting.

This IS interesting. Idk why


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posted on February 6th, 9:19 PM
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