Biases

Question 1

The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows.

Answer 1

Anchoring

Question 2

Your judgments are influenced by what springs most easily to mind.

Answer 2

Availability Heuristic

Question 3

When your core beliefs are challenged, it can cause you to believe even more strongly.

Answer 3

Backfire effect

Question 4

You see personal specifics in vague statements by filling in the gaps.

Answer 4

Barnum effect

Question 5

You look for ways to justify your existing beliefs.

Answer 5

Confirmation bias

Question 6

The more you know, the less confident you’re likely to be.

Answer 6

Dunning-Kruger effect

Question 7

You judge others on their character, but yourself on the situation.

Answer 7

Fundamental attribution error

Question 8

You let the social dynamics of a group situation override the best outcomes.

Answer 8

Groupthink

Question 9

You allow negative things to disproportionately influence your thinking

Answer 9

Negativity bias

Question 10

If you believe you’re taking medicine it can sometimes ‘work’ even if it’s fake.

Answer 10

Placebo effect

Question 11

You overestimate how much people notice how you look and act

Answer 11

Spotlight effect

Question 12

You irrationally cling to things that have already cost you something.

Answer 12

Suck cost fallacy