| Straight Line Instinct hinders thinking by assuming trends will continue |
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| Fear Instinct hinders thinking by confusing risk with fear |
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| Generalization Instinct hinders thinking by using misleading categories |
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| Single Perspective Instinct hinders thinking by having only a hammer |
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| Blame Instinct hinders thinking by pointing fingers |
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| Negativity Instinct hinders thinking by emphasizing bad news |
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| Destiny Instinct hinders thinking by forgetting that small changes add up |
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| Gap Instinct hinders thinking by ignoring the middle majority |
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| Size Instinct hinders thinking by considering a number without context |
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| Status quo bias favors the current state |
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| Urgency Instinct hinders thinking by exaggerating a decision's urgency |
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| Dichotomous thinking simplistically resolves ambiguity |
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| Availability Heuristic overestimates likelihood of events |
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| Confirmation Bias defends one's assumptions |
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| Sunk Cost Fallacy avoids facing a loss |
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| Ambiguity aversion favors the known over the unknown |
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| Overcome loss aversion with hands-on experience |
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| Positive Test Strategy reinforces Confirmation Bias |
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| Hanlon's razor avoids paranoia and ideology |
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| Reference-class forecasting avoids uniqueness bias |
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| Selection Bias happens when the sample is not representative |
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| Anchoring Bias pulls an unknown value toward a known anchor |
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| Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth |
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| Bias for action can mask a bias against thinking |
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| Complexifying overcomes binary bias |
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| Substitution answers an easier, similar question instead |
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| Survivorship bias focuses only on successful examples |
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| Bandwagon bias is social proof |
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| Scout mindset uses thought experiments to test for motivated reasoning |
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| Halo effect is the tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person |
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