File of Bias II, List
In the first part of this topic I introduced the reason why your brain might lie to you, and introduced what its called "cognitive bias". In this entry I will talk about them in a more specific way and I will introduce a list of them. In a general, non formal way, we can describe cognitive bias as "things that seems that follow the rules of logic" that, once you look them closer, you realize they dont follow the rules of logic at all. Our brain has a big collection of them and here I will show a few examples: Confirmation Bias : Confirmation Bias can be defined as the human tendency to search for proof that shows that what they are saying is right, and to ignore proof that shows that they are not. In other words, we have the tendency to "believe" something we would like to happen, and then search for things that strenghtheng our believe, and when we found something against what we believe, we try to ignore it as if "it didnt happen" or ...
