APOPHENIA, PAREIDOLIA, ACHEROPITES, ILLUSION, and HALLUCINATION APOPHENIA is the tendency to see connections and relationships between two unrelated things or events. It's the tendency to see patterns

METACOGNITION, ILLUSORY SUPERIORITY EFFECT, DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT, SUPERIORITY COMPLEX and INFERIORITY COMPLEX We all think but not all of us can think about we think. We all know things but not all of

BELIEF BIAS, SYLLOGISM, FLUENCY HEURISTIC, and RHYME-AS-REASON EFFECT BELIEF BIAS is the tendency to accept a conclusion as true just because it's easy to believe. In other words, people call something

AUTHORITY BIAS, APPEAL TO AUTHORITY, BANDWAGON EFFECT, GROUPTHINK, HERD BEHAVIOUR, COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE, SHEEPLE, and MASS HYSTERIA We were trained to respect authorities. We've been trained to see

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He has often been called the father of modern political

SYSTEM 1, SYSTEM 2, AVAILABILITY HEURISTIC, AVAILABILITY CASCADE, AVAILABILITY ENTREPRENEURS, ILLUSORY TRUTH EFFECT, and MERE EXPOSURE EFFECT Human beings can arrive at conclusions by two systems. SYSTEM

Most people don't know what the prefix "step-" means. They are right with their definitions of "stepfather" and "stepmother" but they are wrong with "stepbrother"

CONFIRMATION BIAS, EISEGESIS, CHERRYPICKING, ECHO CHAMBER, OSTRICH EFFECT, BELIEF PERSEVERANCE, BACKFIRE EFFECT, BELIEF CONSERVATISM, SEMMELWEIS REFLEX, and SELECTIVE PERCEPTION CONFIRMATION BIAS is the