Title: Hostile Attribution Bias (+7 Other Types Of Cognitive Biases) | OptimistMinds
Headings: Hostile attribution bias (+7 other types of cognitive biases)
Hostile attribution bias (+7 other types of cognitive biases)
What is the hostile attribution bias?
The impact of cognitive biases
The mind deceives us
Most studied cognitive biases
Attribution errors and biases
Fundamental attribution error
False consensus
Self-favourable biases
Group-friendly biases
Seligman’s insidious attributional bias
Cognitive heuristics
Representative heuristic
Availability heuristic
Simulation heuristic
Anchoring and adjustment heuristics
FAQ about the hostile attribution bias
What is an example of hostile attribution bias?
What is an attribution bias?
What is value attribution bias?
What is the false consensus?
Conclusions
Further reading
References
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Divya Tiwari

Content: What is the false consensus? False consensus is understood as a tendency to estimate that our behaviour or our opinions are relatively common, that others think and act like us. Conclusions
In this article, we talked about cognitive biases. Mainly about the hostile attribution bias, but also about other attribution errors and biases, highlighting their consequences on our social interaction and day to day lives. Cognitive biases are psychological effects that cause an alteration in the processing of the information captured by our senses, which generates a distortion, erroneous judgment, inconsistent or illogical interpretation based on the information that we have. Social biases are those that refer to attribution biases and disrupt our interactions with other people in our daily lives. The hostile attribution bias or, more recently called, the hostile