A cognitive bias refers to the systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the social world. [2] Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is called irrationality.
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References
- The Evolution of Cognitive Bias, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
- Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality, by Herbert Bless and Klaus Fiedler
- Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness, Cognitive Psychology
- Thinking and Deciding, Fourth Edition, by Jonathan Baron
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
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- #cognitive-science