Title: 
Headings:  The innate effect of Bias
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The
 
innate
 
effect
 
of
 
Bias
 

Overview
 

The
 
neuroscience
 
view
  

Innate
 
cognitive
 
bias
 

3
Others
 
are
 
discussed
 
in
 
Are
 
your
 
stakeholders
 
biased
 
see:
 

4
For
 
more
 
on
 
risk
 
assessment
 
see:
 

7
Cognitive
 
dissonance
 

Learned
 
bias
 
and
 
naive
 
realism
 

Survivorship
 
bias
 
/
 
survival
 
bias
 
and
 
selection
 
bias
 

Affective
 
factors
  

Conclusion
 

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Annex
 
1:
  
Decision-making
 
and
 
behavioral
 
biases
 


Content: The
 
extent
 
to
 
which
 
a
 
particular
 
bias
 
affects
 
you
 
depends
 
in
 
part
 
on
 
your
 
innate
 
preferences,
 
but
 
to
 
a
 
remarkably
 
large
 
extent,
 
it
 
is
 
also
 
based
 
on
 
the
 
behaviour
 
of
 
others
 
around
 
you. We
 
have
 
a
 
strong
 
impulse
 
to
 
conform,
 
and
 
this
 
‘behavioural
 
contagion’
 
affects
 
both
 
our
 
behaviours
 
and
 
our
 
attitudes
 
to
 
risks
 
and
 
loss. The
 
effect
 
of
 
bias
 
can
 
become
 
acute
 
if
 
they
 
form
 
part
 
of
 
a
 
person’s
 
strongly
 
held
 
core
 
beliefs. When
 
‘believers’
 
are
 
presented
 
with
 
evidence
 
that
 
works
 
against
 
their
 
belief
 
they
 
simply
 
cannot
 
accept
 
validity
 
of
 
the
 
evidence. And,
 
because
 
it
 
is
 
important
 
for
 
the
 
person
 
to
 
protect
 
their
 
core
 
belief
 
they
 
will
 
rationalise,
 
ignore,
 
or
 
even
 
deny
 
anything
 
that
 
doesn’t
 
fit
 
with
 
that
 
belief. This
 
process
 
creates
 
a
 
feeling
 
that
 
is
 
extremely
 
uncomfortable
 
called
 
cognitive
 
dissonance; and
 
people
 
that
 
are
 
uncomfortable