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What is the name of the bias that associate a thing as good because it has a relation to another good thing?
It's called the Halo Effect:
The halo effect is a ... cognitive bias, where a person making an
initial assessment of another person, place, or thing will assume
ambiguous information based upon ...
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Is most of Kahneman's 'Thinking fast and slow' not supported by evidence/non replicable?
This is complicated. There's no easy answer, but the outlook for replicability/reproducibility of a lot of the empirical evidence is not great.
The R-index (that the blog authors use to rank the ...
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What's the technical name for this cognitive bias?
Not sure what you describe is a cognitive bias in itself, but I suspect the scarcity heuristic may be part of the purchaser's rationalization. (See the wikipedia article for academic references.)
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What's the technical name for this cognitive bias?
I am not entirely sure about the proper scientific names but I think your issue revolves around buying things because they are
cheap;
hard to find.
The first is a notorious reason to buy stuff; the ...
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Why some papers suggest that losses and gains are coded by the same mechanism while other suggest that distinct circuits anticipate gain and loss?
Because we still don't know exactly how the brain works. That's why we do research. If these authors knew the answer ahead of time, neither of them would have done the study.
These are research ...
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Do dissatisfaction with a job and relationships share the same mental mechanism?
In general, personality traits correlate with most measures of satisfaction. Most notably, there is a large literature showing that personality correlates with life satisfaction (see Steel et al). In ...
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Encouraging Kindness in Rich People?
This is an interesting question as it has been of the opinion of many people around me that people who drive certain cars or are in a particular job or social status are selfish and don't care about ...
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How can I run a placebo medication pills study? Practical advice needed
Ethical procedures are specific to your country and even differ between universities and sometimes even per department. Of course you know everything about the Declaration of Helsinki, being immersed ...
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An Overview of Priming in Psychology
This should be rather easy to find on google scholar, especially with the recent replicability crisis in social psychology. In particular, Bargh and Cesario has a few things to say in 'defense' of ...
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How to explain utility function from personality, beliefs and ongoing emotions?
The behaviour of agents can be predicted from utility or value based decision analysis models. Basically, you can model how the agent decides based on multiple objectives (or goals) by means of a ...
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Why can't subjective utilities take probabilities into account?
You certainly did not understand it correctly, because the statement that the second case is either rational or not cannot be stated based only on the information you provided.
The rationality of the ...
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Psychology of brand names
What you are looking for is usually considered within synesthesia, specifically auditory-visual synesthesia.
Usually these topics are developed in "commercial or industrial psychology" in a general ...
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Research and theories related to the physical form of Cognitive Fallacies
This schematic broadly outlines the control processes involved in decision-making, relating to structures of the prefrontal cortex (PFC).
The bias you're referring to is an availability bias. I'm not ...
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Why is toilet paper out of stock around the world during the coronavirus outbreak?
In simple terms, demand for toilet paper increased and supply was unable to scale up.
The supply chain for toilet paper is unable to rapidly scale up production to the levels required to meet the ...
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What is the difference between "nudge theory" and "priming"?
They are not necessarily related concepts, and I think. While nudge (in Thaler's sense) is a mechanism for fostering choice in a planned way, priming refers to a faster processing of new stimuli ...
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How much does money (or any desired good) influence a person on average?
Here are two studies may be relevant to your question:
Seeing green: Mere exposure to money triggers a business decision frame and unethical outcomes. The authors report that "individuals primed ...
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Could motivational interviewing techniques be used without engaging with a counselor?
Performance reviews (Cardon & Stevens, 2004; Posthuma & Campion, 2008) are part of running an effective business. Are your employees performing at their best? If not, why is that?
A ...
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