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* [[Fundamental attribution error|'''Fundamental attribution error''']] - an individual's tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality while attributing their behaviour to external situational factors outside of their control. | * [[Fundamental attribution error|'''Fundamental attribution error''']] - an individual's tendency to attribute another's actions to their character or personality while attributing their behaviour to external situational factors outside of their control. | ||
* [[Optimism bias|'''Optimism Bias''']] - the ego doesn't like to think it will fail, therefore you will feel less likely to experience a negative event relative to others. | * [[Optimism bias|'''Optimism Bias''']] - the ego doesn't like to think it will fail, therefore you will feel less likely to experience a negative event relative to others. | ||
* [[Negativity Bias]] - opposite to the above, and one of the fundamental features of clinical depression. Negativity bias is the psychological phenomenon in which negative information or experiences have a stronger impact on our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors compared to positive ones. | |||
*'''[[Sunk Cost Fallacy]]''' - the ego does not like to be proven wrong in its past investments. This fallacy occurs when a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial. This leads to [[Rosy Retrospection Bias|'''Rosy Retrospection Bias''']] where even when people have failed they overestimate the good aspects of the past. | *'''[[Sunk Cost Fallacy]]''' - the ego does not like to be proven wrong in its past investments. This fallacy occurs when a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial. This leads to [[Rosy Retrospection Bias|'''Rosy Retrospection Bias''']] where even when people have failed they overestimate the good aspects of the past. | ||