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Scope insensitivity — When you don't care enough to use mouthwash.
Availability heuristic — People in open relationships are hotter.
Endowment effect — People with large attributes tend to think size matters more.
Hyperbolic discounting — Black Friday, for instance.
Observer-expectancy effect — Being able to see that someone is pregnant.
Fundamental attribution error — Blaming everything on the Religious Right.
Halo effect — Blaming everything on the Covenant.
Primacy effect — It's easy to remember apes and monkeys.
Representativeness heuristic - Most liars are politicians.
Availability cascade — When your whole social circle becomes polyamorous.
Curse of knowledge — What you get for reading the Necronomicon.
Denomination effect — Catholics spend more money than Methodists.
Restraint bias — Favoritism shown towards bondage practitioners.
Illusion of transparency — Ignoring the gunk on your windshield.
System justification — When your computer lines up your text for you.
Peak-end rule — The king who stands on the mountaintop will fall.
Reminiscence bump — A feature of phrenology.
Rosy retrospection — Remember how much fun you had with Rose?
Bounded rationality — The logic of kangaroos.
Status quo bias -- Fear of losing one's social standing.
Recency illusion -- Belief that a word is new when it was really coined by Jane Austen.
Choice-supportive bias -- Pro-abortion bias.
Risk compensation -- Making a daring attack at Kamchatka and then fortifying.