Psychological Reasons for Misjudgments - Deepstash

Psychological Reasons for Misjudgments

  • Underestimating the power of rewards and punishment
  • Valuing the present more highly than the future.
  • Over-influence by vivid or the most recent information.
  • Constructing explanations that fit an outcome.
  • Memory limitations: Remembering selectively and wrong.
  • Acting without a sensible reason.
  • Mental confusion from say-something syndrome: Feeling a need to say something when we have nothing to say.
  • Making hasty judgments under the influence of intense emotions
  • Mental confusion from stress and from physical or psychological pain, the influence of chemicals or diseases.

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