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effects that lead to errors in judgement

Ambiguity effect - probability appears known due to the small sampling size or "unknown" by avoiding noting variables.

Bandwagon effect - believing something because others do

Backfire effect - enhancement of ignorogance through rejection of evidence contradictory to expectations

Butterfly effect - small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system may result in large differences in a later state.

Contrast effect - the enhancement or diminishment, relative to normal, of perception, cognition and related performance as a result of immediately previous or simultaneous exposure to like stimulus

Denomination effect - the tendency to spend more money when it is denominated in small amounts (e.g. coins) than large amounts (e.g. bills)

Devil effect - a particular negative trait of an individual "frames" the entire individual

Dunning-Kruger effect - incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill and talent while failing to recognize genuine skill in others and the extremity of their own inadequacy

"Why ignorance fails to recognize itself" - David Dunning

Endowment effect - to ascribe more value to a possessed object

Forer effect (aka Barnum Effect) - to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for oneself personally even though the statements could apply to many people

Framing effect - drawing different conclusions based on how information is presented

Halo effect - a particular positive trait of an individual "frames" the entire individual

Hawthorne effect - people act differently when they know they are being observed

Lake Wobegon effect - the phenomenon that a supermajority of people report themselves as above average in desirable qualities

Licensing effect - positive acts make up for negative acts

Mere-Exposure effect - developing a preference for something merely because it is familiar

Moral credential effect - prior track records of non-prejudice increases subsequent prejudice

Observer-expectancy effect - expectations of a given result create a subconscious bias to manipulate or misinterprets data in order to find expected results

Ostrich effect - ignoring an obvious (negative) situation.

Neglect of prior base rates effect - the tendency to neglect known odds when reevaluating odds in light of weak evidence

Pseudocertainty effect - making risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive while making risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes

Search Engine effect - manipulation of The Creepy Line

Thinking-in-the-box effect - unawareness that cognition is bound by experience

Telescoping effect - recent events appear to have occurred more remotely and remote events appear to have occurred more recently

Von Restorff effect - that which remains in memory caught our attention

Yes-men effect - failure to see all are in agreement for the sake of unanimity

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