Action bias is the psychological phenomenon where people tend to favor action over inaction, even when there is no indication that doing so would point towards a better result. It is an automatic response, similar to a reflex or an impulse and is not based on rational thinking. One of the first appearances of the term "action bias" in scientific journals was in a 2000 paper by Patt and Zechenhauser titled "Action Bias and Environmental Decisions", where its relevance in politics was expounded.[1]
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Actionbias is the psychological phenomenon where people tend to favor action over inaction, even when there is no indication that doing so would point...
Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral...
Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information...
Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair....
adaptive. They may lead to more effective actions in a given context. Furthermore, allowing cognitive biases enables faster decisions which can be desirable...
such as institutions. Systemic bias is related to and overlaps conceptually with institutional bias and structural bias, and the terms are often used interchangeably...
Omission bias is the phenomenon in which people prefer omission (inaction) over commission (action) and people tend to judge harm as a result of commission...
commercial bias, temporal bias, visual bias, bad news bias, narrative bias, status quo bias, fairness bias, expediency bias, class bias and glory bias (or the...
Political bias is a bias or perceived bias involving the slanting or altering of information to make a political position or political candidate seem more...
In psychology, an attribution bias or attributional errors is a cognitive bias that refers to the systematic errors made when people evaluate or try to...
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Optimism bias (or the optimistic bias) is a cognitive bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative...
and/or sexual orientation. Non-criminal actions that are motivated by these reasons are often called "bias incidents". Incidents may involve physical...
A status quo bias is a cognitive bias which results from a preference for the maintenance of one's existing state of affairs. The current baseline (or...
Normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate...
Algorithmic bias describes systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create "unfair" outcomes, such as "privileging" one category over...
The negativity bias, also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things...
Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along phenomenon or creeping determinism, is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having...
systemic bias in editor demographic results in cultural bias, gender bias, and geographical bias on Wikipedia. There are two broad types of bias, which...
to be seen as having malicious intentions. A clear example of this bias in action is when a Black child is assumed to be older than their actual age....
attribution error, also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is a cognitive attribution bias in which observers underemphasize situational...
Ideological bias on Wikipedia, especially in its English-language edition, has been the subject of academic analysis and public criticism of the project...
Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without...
Claims of media bias generally focus on the idea of media outlets reporting news in a way that seems partisan. Other claims argue that outlets sometimes...
Egocentric bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on one's own perspective and/or have a higher opinion of oneself than reality. It appears to be the...
benefit. In sociology, irrational escalation of commitment or commitment bias describe similar behaviors. The phenomenon and the sentiment underlying them...
Racial biases are a form of implicit bias, which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions...
readily recalled, is inherently biased toward recently acquired information. The mental availability of an action's consequences is positively related...
In epidemiology, reporting bias is defined as "selective revealing or suppression of information" by subjects (for example about past medical history,...