Type of phenomenon separates effects that are adaptive from those that are simply errors. Wikipedia notes that "cognitive biases may initially appear to be negative, some are adaptive," since a quick judgment can sometimes be more useful than a perfectly accurate one. This grouping lets a visitor tell a helpful mental shortcut apart from a genuine distortion.
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Originating WorkGustav Fechner's Elemente der Psychophysik (1860) 1 Type of Phenomenon
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1. Psychophysics
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Many of the classical techniques and theories of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig published Elemente der Psychophysik (Elements of Psychophysics).
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