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What is Cognitive Bias

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Political Decision-Making and Security Intelligence: Recent Techniques and Technological Developments
It is a systematic pattern of deviation from the norm or from rationality in judgment. The bias is a form of distortion of the evaluation caused by the injury. A person's mind map presents bias where it is conditioned by pre-existing concepts not necessarily connected to one another by logical and validities.
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Policy-Decision Environment and Cognitive Biases: Cases Study
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1562-4.ch002
Abstract
Cognitive biases are a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive processes. They are mental errors caused by our simplified information processing strategies, and can be cultural, emotional, or intellectual predispositions toward a certain judgment, organizational bias, and bias that results from one's self-interest. The chapter explores some case studies in the foreign policy decision-making, distinguished in groupthink and polythink types, such as Pearl Harbor, Cuba Missile Crisis, Iraq Invasion of 2003, and post-9/11 environment.
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Exploring Cognitive Biases, Groupthink, and Polythink Syndrome in Security Decisions and Business Outcomes
It is a systematic pattern of deviation from the norm or from rationality in judgment The bias is a form of distortion of the evaluation caused by the injury. A person's mind map presents bias where it is conditioned by pre-existing concepts not necessarily connected to one another by logical and validities.
Published in Chapter: Exploring Cognitive Biases, Groupthink, and Polythink Syndrome in Security Decisions and Business Outcomes; From: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence
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When Learning Is Too Good to Be True: Addressing Common Myths, Misrepresentations, and Misconceptions to Foster Self-Regulated Learning
Deviation from normative or rational judgment and decision-making stemming from maladaptive heuristic thinking.
Published in Chapter: When Learning Is Too Good to Be True: Addressing Common Myths, Misrepresentations, and Misconceptions to Foster Self-Regulated Learning; From: Supporting Self-Regulated Learning and Student Success in Online Courses
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Leadership and Strategic Decision Making Under Exogenous Shocks Such as COVID-19
Is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make.
Published in Chapter: Leadership and Strategic Decision Making Under Exogenous Shocks Such as COVID-19; From: Business Models to Promote Technology, Culture, and Leadership in Post-COVID-19 Organizations
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Cognitive Biases and Data Visualization
An unconscious effect that causes humans to make errors in decision-making tasks.
Published in Chapter: Cognitive Biases and Data Visualization; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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Leadership Skills in Disruptive and Uncertain Environments
A systematic pattern of deviation from the norm or rationality in judgment in which individuals create their own subjective reality that dictates their behaviour.
Published in Chapter: Leadership Skills in Disruptive and Uncertain Environments; From: Business Continuity Management and Resilience: Theories, Models, and Processes
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Real-Life and Virtual News Sources Can Be Flat-Out Wrong: Teaching the Importance of Libel Law and Media Literacy in a Single Class Session
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Ferreting Out Silences and Invisibilities in Electronic Hive Minds: Identifying Absent/Non-Present, Latent/Hidden, and Shadowed/Obfuscated Messaging
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