Pessimism Bias: The tendency for some people, especially those suffering from depression, to overestimate the likelihood of negative things happening to them.

Egocentric Bias: Occurs when people claim more responsibility for themselves for the results of a joint action than an outside observer would credit them with.

Normalcy Bias: The refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before. #CognitiveBiases

Forer Effect or Barnum Effect: The observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.

Rosy Retrospection: The remembering of the past as having been better than it really was. #CognitiveBiases

Negativity Bias or Negativity Effect: Psychological phenomenon by which humans have a greater recall of unpleasant memories compared with positive memories. (see also actor-observer bias, group attribution error, positivity effect, and negativity effect). #CognitiveBiases

Anchoring or Focalism: The tendency to rely too heavily, or anchor, on one trait or piece of information when making decisions (usually the first piece of information acquired on that subject) #CognitiveBiases

Modality Effect: That memory recall is higher for the last items of a list when the list items were received via speech than when they were received through writing.

Pro-Innovation Bias: The tendency to have an excessive optimism towards an invention or innovations usefulness throughout society, while often failing to identify its limitations and weaknesses. #CognitiveBiases

Disposition Effect: The tendency to sell an asset that has accumulated in value and resist selling an asset that has declined in value. #CognitiveBiases

Social Comparison Bias: The tendency, when making decisions, to favour potential candidates who dont compete with ones own particular strengths.

Persistence: The unwanted recurrence of memories of a traumatic event. #CognitiveBiases

Telescoping Effect: The tendency to displace recent events backward in time and remote events forward in time, so that recent events appear more remote, and remote events, more recent. #CognitiveBiases

Levels-Of-Processing Effect: That different methods of encoding information into memory have different levels of effectiveness. #CognitiveBiases

Testing Effect: The fact that you more easily remember information you have read by rewriting it instead of rereading it.

False Memory: A form of misattribution where imagination is mistaken for a memory.

System Justification: The tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social, economic, and political arrangements tend to be preferred, and alternatives disparaged, sometimes even at the expense of individual and collective self-interest #CognitiveBiases

False Consensus Effect: The tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them. #CriticalThinking

Bias Blind Spot: The tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself.

Functional Fixedness: Limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used. #CognitiveBiases