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Comment author: fubarobfusco 19 November 2013 06:26:05PM 14 points [-]

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.

Comment author: bramflakes 20 November 2013 01:47:27PM 6 points [-]

Representativeness heuristic - Most liars are politicians.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 21 November 2013 08:14:13PM 7 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Alejandro1 20 November 2013 03:11:21PM 3 points [-]

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.