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Named, observable psychological effects and patterns of thought, feeling or behavior that recur across individuals and situations, such as cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, the bystander effect, the Dunning-Kruger effect, groupthink and the placebo effect. This is distinct from the formal explanatory frameworks filed under Theories and Concepts, which account for why a phenomenon occurs, and from the individual research projects that first identified or tested one, filed under Studies and Experiments. Belongs here: a named recurring effect or pattern in mental life or behavior that can be described and illustrated independently of any single study. Does not belong here: the theory built to explain a phenomenon's underlying mechanism, filed under Theories and Concepts, and the specific experiment or study that discovered or tested it, filed under Studies and Experiments, even though a phenomenon entity should still connect to both.
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1. Wikipedia: Heuristics in Judgment and Decision-Making
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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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