Source: https://betterhumans.pub/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18 Cognitive Bias Codex

Buster Benson's "Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet" categorizes various cognitive biases into four main problem-solving categories, helping to understand how these biases impact our thinking and decision-making processes.

Four Problem-Solving Categories

  • Too Much Information: We filter information to focus on what seems most relevant.
    • Availability Heuristic: Overestimating the importance of easily recalled information.
    • Anchoring: Relying too heavily on the first piece of information encountered.
  • Not Enough Meaning: We fill in gaps with patterns and stories to make sense of the world.
    • Confirmation Bias: Searching for and remembering information that confirms our beliefs.
    • Clustering Illusion: Seeing patterns in random data.
  • Need to Act Fast: Simplifying decision-making to act quickly in a fast-paced world.
    • Overconfidence Effect: Overestimating our ability to predict outcomes.
    • Optimism Bias: Believing we are less likely to experience negative events.
  • What Should We Remember? Prioritizing significant or useful memories for the future.
    • Hindsight Bias: Seeing events as predictable after they have happened.
    • Serial Position Effect: Better recalling the first and last items in a series.