The concept of “cognitive biases” is most commonly used to describe and qualify the deviations in human decision making. Cognitive biases can generally be described as systematic and universally occurring tendencies, inclinations, or dispositions that skew or distort information processes in ways that make their outcome inaccurate, suboptimal or simply wrong. This ontology aims to describe the hierarchical relationships between the biases and the concepts that they can be grouped around.
relates a bias to its causes (an element of the firs or second level grouping).
links a Biased Agent with the agent he is subject to
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
Appeal to Probability Fallacy: Incorrectly basing decisions on probability without considering other factors.
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input.
Curse of Knowledge: Difficulty in imagining what it's like for others not to know something you know.
Denomination Effect: Spending behavior influenced by the denomination of currency.
Extrinsic Incentive Error: Overestimating the impact of external rewards on motivation or behavior.
A general grouping For Biases according to the general model proposed in the Cognitive Bias Codex
Illusion of Asymmetric Insight: Belief that one knows more about others than they know about oneself.
Illusion of External Agency: Attributing events to external forces rather than personal agency.
Illusion of Transparency: Overestimating the extent to which one's thoughts or feelings are known by others.
An agent that as a relationship with a non biased agent
it is one of the four main categoriziation of biases.
Second level of grouping according to the scheme proposed by the Cognitive Bias Codex
A grouping of biases according to the semplificationo of numbers and probabilities.
We simplify probabilities and numbers to make them easier to think about
Spotlight Effect: Overestimating how much attention others pay to our appearance or behavior.
The Magical Number 7±2: Cognitive limit for short-term memory, around 7 items.
A group of biases characterised by the tendency to assume to know other's thoughts
We think we know what other people are thinking.