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	Cognitive Biases

mcsmithblack

9-26-2009 12:59 AM

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mcsmithblack says:

This Wiki article is way too fun, as in scary fun. You're guaranteed to find yourself in there.
How embarrassing!

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Some are presumably adaptive, for example, because they lead to more effective actions or enable faster decisions. Others presumably result from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms, or from the misapplication of a mechanism that is adaptive under different circumstances.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cognitive_biases&oldid=315404276"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Bandwagon effect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect">Bandwagon effect</A> — the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. 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