There are hundreds of documented cognitive biases, but new research suggests that many of them load onto just a handful of meta-beliefs such as:

  • My experience is a good reference
  • I make correct assessments of the world
  • I am good
  • My group is a reasonable reference point
  • My group and its members are good

 

Link: Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases

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