Title: The Behavioral Biases of Individuals
Headings: The Behavioral Biases of Individuals
The Behavioral Biases of Individuals
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Content: emotional biases tend to result from  reasoning influenced by feelings. Cognitive errors are more easily corrected for because they stem from faulty reasoning  rather than an emotional predisposition. Emotional biases are harder to correct for because they are based on feelings, which  can be difficult to change. To adapt to a bias is to recognize and accept the bias and to adjust for the bias  rather than to attempt to moderate the bias. To moderate a bias is to recognize the bias and to attempt to reduce or even eliminate  the bias within the individual. Cognitive errors can be further classified into two categories: belief perseverance  biases and information-processing biases. Belief perseverance errors reflect an inclination to maintain beliefs. The belief  is maintained by committing statistical, information-processing, or memory errors. Belief perseverance biases are closely related to the psychological concept of cognitive  dissonance.