Cognitive Biases

cognitive-heuristics

Availability heuristic and representative heuristic are two foundational concepts in judgment and decision making that explain how people assess probability and risk under uncer...

psychology-cognition

The representative heuristic is a mental shortcut in which people judge the likelihood of an event or person by how much it resembles their mental prototype or stereotype. When...

language-and-communication

A trick question is a carefully framed prompt designed to misdirect, constrain options, or imply a false premise, making a simple answer difficult or impossible. These questions...