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Choice And Preference Effects

A decision bias in how a person chooses among options, or in how they value, price or prefer one option, product or possession over another, spanning the standard judgment-and-decision-making literature on choice architecture together with the closely related consumer and economic-behavior literature on ownership, pricing and consumption. This group gathers the choice and preference phenomena recorded for this atlas, including documented effects in how a default option, an ownership stake, or a price presentation measurably shifts what a person chooses or how much they value it.

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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Tversky and Kahneman, Science, 1974) 1
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Action Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Adaptive Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Ambiguity Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Anthropocentric Thinking

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Blissful Ignorance Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Bounded Rationality

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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Car Brain

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Certainty Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Choice Blindness

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Choice Overload

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Cognitive Bias Mitigation

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Compassion Fade

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Debiasing

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Decision Fatigue

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Decoy Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Deformation Professionnelle

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Denomination Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Diderot Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Distinction Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Endowment Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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Escalation of Commitment

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Failure Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Foreign-Language Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

IKEA Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Information Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Less-Is-Better Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

McNamara Fallacy

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Mere Ownership Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Money Illusion

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Narrative Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Nominative Determinism

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Objectivity Illusion

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Outcome Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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Post-Purchase Rationalization

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Proximity Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Pseudocertainty Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Psychological Inertia

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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Psychological Pricing

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Regret Aversion

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Scope Neglect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Self-Defeating Prophecy

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

SnackWell Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Snob Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Status Quo Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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Unit Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Veblen Good

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Wells Effect

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Winner's Curse

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases
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1. Wikipedia: Heuristics in Judgment and Decision-Making
Wikimedia FoundationHeuristics in judgment and decision-making, Tversky and Kahneman section, choice/preference group
Quote, Heuristics in judgment and decision-making, Tversky and Kahneman section, choice/preference group
This research, called the heuristics-and-biases program, challenged the idea that human beings are rational actors and first gained worldwide attention in 1974 with the Science paper "Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases".
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