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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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Tversky and Kahneman heuristics-and-biases research program 1

All Psychological Phenomena

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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".

Abilene Paradox

Absenteeism

Absent-Mindedness (Memory)

Absolute Threshold

Abusive Supervision

Accentuation Effect

Acculturation

Acquiescence Bias

Acrophobia

Acting Out

Action Bias

Action Slip

Actor-Observer Asymmetry

Actor-Observer Bias

Adaptive Bias

Addictive Personality

Additive Bias

Adolescent Egocentrism

Adultification

Aerophobia

Aesthetic-Usability Effect

Affect Heuristic

Affective Forecasting

Affinity Bias

Affluenza

Afterimage

Agent Detection Bias

Agoraphobia

Agyrophobia

Aichmophobia

Ailurophobia

Akinetopsia

Alcohol Myopia

Alektorophobia

Alexithymia

Algophobia

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Alien Hand Syndrome

Alliesthesia

Allostatic Load

Altered State of Consciousness

Altruism (Defense Mechanism)

Amafufunyana

Ambiguity Aversion

Ambiguity Effect

Ambiguous Image

Ames Room Illusion

Ames Window

Amity-Enmity Complex

Amok Syndrome

Amotivational Syndrome

Amusia

Amygdala Hijack

Analysis Paralysis

Anatidaephobia

Anchoring Bias

Anchoring Effect

Ancraophobia

Androphobia

Anhedonia

Animism (Child Development)

Anorexia Athletica

Anorexia Mirabilis

Anosognosia

A-Not-B Error

Anthropocentric Thinking

Anthropomorphism

Anthropophobia

Anticipation (Defense Mechanism)

Anticipatory Anxiety

Anticipatory Obedience

Anton-Babinski Syndrome

Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment

Apeirophobia

Aphantasia

Apiphobia

Apophenia

Apotemnophobia

Apperceptive Agnosia

Approach-Avoidance Conflict