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Cognitive Bias

The universal human condition whereby unconscious and irrational processes distort the way that we see the world.

 

Notes

Someone has compiled "every single" cognitive bias in an infographic https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cognitive-bias-infographic.html. And you will find other such articles and blog posts.

But the first such compilation was performed by Daniel Kahneman, who catalogued more than 150 forms of cognitive bias, which he discussed in his 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow