The Availability Bias

• Rosy retrospection bias. We often remember the past as having been better than it really was.
• Consistency bias. We wrongly remember our past attitudes and behaviour as similar to our present attitudes and behaviour.
• Mood-congruent ...

Hindsight bias is a false belief that our judgement is better than it actually is when we look back and see the events. Reality appears more predictable after an event happens. This is also known as the ‘Knew-it-all-along effect’.

This bias makes people less accountable fo...

When our heuristics make us do unreasonable things and ignore obvious dangers, it is termed as a cognitive bias, a systematic error that is based out of our unawareness.

These systematic thinking patterns form the mental models that make us perform automated functions, and...