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Cognitive Biases

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The Sunk Cost Fallacy And How It Can Ruin Your Decisions

Sunk cost fallacy is a cognitive bias that causes people to include non-recoverable past costs in their decision-making process.

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Anchoring

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Loss Aversion

Loss Aversion: How We Fear Losses More Than Value Gains

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a bias whereby people with low ability in a certain area tend to overestimate their capability in that area.

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