Talk:Observer bias

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Examples of cognitive bias - wrong article?

I have removed the following content, as it seems to be relevant not to this article but to cognitive bias. --Piotrus at Hanyang| reply here 07:21, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Examples of cognitive biases include:

  • Anchoring – a cognitive bias that causes humans to place too much reliance on the initial pieces of information they are provided with for a topic. This causes a skew in judgement and prevents humans and observers from updating their plans and predictions as appropriate.
  • Bandwagon effect – the tendency for people to "jump on the bandwagon" with certain behaviours and attitudes, meaning that they adopt particular ways of doings things based on what others are doing.
  • Bias blind spot – the tendency for people to recognize the impact of bias on others and their judgements, while simultaneously failing to acknowledge and recognize the impact that their own biases have on their own judgement.
  • Confirmation bias – the tendency for people to look for, interpret, and recall information in such a way that their preconceived beliefs and values are affirmed.
  • Guilt and innocence by association bias – the tendency for people to hold an assumption that individuals within a group share similar characteristics and behaviours, including those that would hail them as innocent or guilty.
  • Halo effect – the tendency for the positive impressions and beliefs in one area around a person, brand, company, product or the like to influence an observers opinions or feelings in other unrelated areas.
  • Framing effect – the tendency for people to form conclusions and opinions based on whether the pertinent relevant is provided to them with positive or negative connotations.
  • Recency effect – the tendency for more recent pieces of information, ideas, or arguments to be remembered more clearly than those that preceded.