18 February, 2014

Cognitive Biases

After reading about cognitive biases, I have decided to coin some of my own:

  • The Fremdenamen Effect: the tendency of things to carry greater credibility when given foreign names. 
  • The Frost Effect: the tendency for concepts named after people to give a misleading first impression. Named after Dr. Frost. 
  • The Grandiloquent Nomenclature Effect: the tendency of things to seem more legitimate when given lofty sounding names. 
  • The Self-Demonstration Effect: the tendency for cognitive biases to be more easily remembered when their name is self-demonstrative.