25 Cognitive Tendencies …

Reward/Punishment - Superresponse Tendency

People work towards rewards, and away from punishments. Finally, somebody got the
idea that it was foolish to pay the night shift by the hour. The employer wanted rapid
loading of a plane, not maximized billable hours of employee service
Liking/Loving Tendency
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Liking/Loving Tendency Bias. The tendency to especially like oneself, one's own kind
and one's own idea structures, and the tendency to be especially susceptible to being
misled by someone liked. The most common form of liking tendency you'll see is toward
individual people and brands or organizations
Disliking/Hating Tendency
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This tendency is the exact opposite of the liking/loving tendency (learn about the
liking/loving tendency here). The concept is that the dislike and hate overpower
anything good that could come from the situation. You make prejudgements that make
up your mind. This is a very negative way to think and act
Doubt-Avoidance Tendency
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Doubt Avoidance. ... So pronounced is the tendency in man to quickly remove doubt by
reaching some decision that behavior to counter the tendency is required from judges
and jurors. Here, delay before decision making is forced.
Inconsistency-Avoidance Tendency
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Humans like to be consistent in everything they do, everything they say, and everything
they are. Ben Franklin is indicating that Inconsistency-Avoidance Tendency makes it
much easier to prevent a habit than to change it.
Curiosity Tendency
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Curiosity is a pleasant motivational state involving the tendency to recognize and seek
out novel and challenging information and experiences. Curiosity differs from other
positive emotions by the strong desire to explore and persist in the activity that initially
stimulated an individual's interest
Kantian Fairness Tendency
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The Kantian Fairness Tendency refers to the pursuit of perfect fairness which causes
a lot of terrible problems. Stop expecting the world to be fair and adjust your behavior
accordingly.
Envy/Jealousy Tendency
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Envy/jealousy tendency comes from the need to get often-scarce food, this occurs often
when the food is seen in possession of another member of the same species. Pretty
 when the food is seen in possession of another member of the same species. Pretty
Basic one but bad explanation
Reciprocation Tendency
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Reciprocation tendency, including the tendency of one on a roll to act as other persons
expect
Influence-from-Mere-Association Tendency
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Influence-from-Mere-Association Tendency often has a shocking effect that helps swamp the
normal tendency to return favor for favor. Sometimes, when one receives a favor, his
condition is unpleasant, due to poverty, sickness, subjugation, or something else
Simple, Pain-Avoiding Tendency
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We have a habit of distorting the facts until they become bearable for our own
views.

Excessive Self-Regard Tendency

Overoptimism Tendency
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We tend to be too optimistic (at least in the day to day) which leads to disappointment
when things don’t go our way (because we expect them to)
Deprival-Superreaction Tendency
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Deprival-Superreaction in a way is loss aversion. Loss aversion refers to people's
tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains. Most studies suggest
that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains.
Social-Proof Tendency
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Social proof is the influence that the actions and attitudes of the people around us
(either in real life or online) have on our own behavior. The "proof" element is the idea
that if other people are doing it (or saying it), it must be correct. ... The undue influence
of others can result in conformity and errors.
Contrast-Misreaction Tendency
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Contrast Misreaction Tendency is routinely used to cause disadvantage for a customer,
making an ordinary price seem low, a vendor will very frequently create a highly artificial
price that is much higher than the price always sought, then advertise the standard
price as a big reduction from his phony price.
Stress-Influence Tendency
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Adrenaline tends to produce faster and more extreme reactions. Some stress can
improve performance but heavy stress often leads to dysfunction.
 improve performance but heavy stress often leads to dysfunction.
Availability-Misweighing Tendency
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What it is blocked from recognizing because it is heavily influenced by one or more
psychological tendencies bearing strongly on it, the mind overweights what is easily
available and displays Availability-Misweighting Tendency
Use-It-Or-Lose-It Tendency
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Use-it-or-lose-it tendency postulates that When an approved skill is raised to fluency
then the skill (1) will be lost more slowly and (2) will come back faster when refreshed
with new learning.
Drug-Misinfluence Tendency
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Drug-Misinfluence Bias. The tendency to distort reality so it's bearable
Senescence-Misinfluence Tendency
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As we age there is a natural loss of certain skills and abilities. Continuous thinking and
learning helps to slow the decay.

Authority-Misinfluence Tendency
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Living in dominance hierarchies as he does, man was born mostly to follow leaders,
with only a few people doing the leading. And so, human society is formally organized
into dominance hierarchies.
Twaddle Tendency
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"Twaddle Tendency" refers to a cognitive bias in which people love to waste their time
with long bouts of distraction. To daydream the day away focused on useless activities.
To twaddle
Reason-Respecting Tendency
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Reason Respecting Tendency is where people want the answers to something but don't
care to know the background information or reasoning to gain a better understanding.
... The better we understand the worldly affairs, sharper is our decision making.
Lollapalooza Tendency
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One that is extraordinarily impressive; also: an outstanding example. The lollapalooza
tendency comes into action when more than one of the previously mentioned
tendencies work together towards an outcome.