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Time-Saving Bias

Decision-Making and Judgment Biases

Time-saving bias is a cognitive bias describing people's tendency to misestimate the amount of time that would actually be saved by increasing their speed, such as when driving faster.

Facts
Core Claim
Time-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed. 1
First Described Year
2008 1
Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Cognitive Phenomenon 1
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Source Wikipedia: Time-saving bias
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1. Wikipedia: Time-saving bias
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead paragraph
    Time-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed.
  • References, Sources section, Svenson entry
    Svenson, O. (2008). "Decisions among time saving options: When intuition is strong and wrong". Acta Psychologica. 127 (2). Elsevier BV: 501-509.
  • lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
    Time-saving bias is a cognitive bias describing people's tendency to misestimate the amount of time that would actually be saved by increasing their speed, such as when driving faster.
  • In Branch: Cognitive Psychology, Categories
    Wikipedia article 'Time-saving bias' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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