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Behavioral EconomicsEconomicsBehavioral ScienceEstablished

Cognitive bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic deviation from rational judgement that shapes everyday decisions.

Cognitive biasBehavioral economicsBounded rationalityProspect theoryChoice architectureSurvivorship BiasSelection BiasAvailability HeuristicBase-Rate Neglect

At a glance

Type
decision
Disciplines 3
Behavioral EconomicsEconomicsBehavioral Science
Mental models 0
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Role in the graph
Cross-disciplinary bridge
reaches 3 discipline lenses

Key signals

Cross-disciplinary reach
Disciplines
3
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Economics
  • Behavioral Science
Evidence & development

Dependencies

What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.

Foundations · builds on

HeuristiccausesCognitive biasEstablished

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Heuristic causes Cognitive bias.

Mechanism: Reliance on heuristics produces systematic cognitive biases.

System context

Cognitive biasis part ofBehavioral economicsEstablished

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Biases anchor the field.

Mechanism: Behavioural economics is built on documented cognitive biases that make real choices depart from the rational ideal.

Cognitive biasis part ofBounded rationalityEstablished

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Cognitive bias is a part of Bounded rationality.

Anchoringis aCognitive biasEstablished

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Anchoring is a kind of Cognitive bias.

Availability Heuristicis aCognitive biasEstablished

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Availability Heuristic is a kind of cognitive bias.

Mechanism: Availability Heuristic is documented in its field; this links it to cognitive bias in the graph.

Base-Rate Neglectis aCognitive biasEstablished

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Base-Rate Neglect is a kind of cognitive bias.

Mechanism: Base-Rate Neglect is documented in its field; this links it to cognitive bias in the graph.

Structural role & consequence

Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.

  • Removing this node severs the only sampled structural route between Availability Heuristic and Base-Rate Neglect — a non-redundant bridge here.

    structural · Structural removal simulation — not a historical or causal counterfactual.

  • Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 13 of 13 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.

    atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.

  • Builds on 1 foundation (requires / depends-on / derived-from / emerges-from).

    structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.

  • Structural neighbourhood: 13 → 20 → 40 concepts reachable within 3 hops.

    structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.

31%

cross-field
9 within-field, 4 cross-field

0 of 13 relations carry evidence · concept has a verified source

Strengths & constraints

Constraints

  • Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
  • Non-redundant bridge — removing it severs a sampled route between neighbouring clusters. structural
  • No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation

Conditions

  • Its dependency reading rests on 1 foundation relation. structural
  • Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural

Dependency radial

What this concept builds on (left) and what it makes possible (right) — derived from dependency and causal relations.

HeuristicCognitive bias◀ builds onenables ▶

Seen through each discipline

How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.

Behavioral Economics

Through this lens it connects to Prospect theory, Choice architecture and Sunk-Cost Fallacy.

Cognitive bias through the Behavioral Economics lens →

Economics

Through this lens it connects to Behavioral economics, Prospect theory and Choice architecture.

Cognitive bias through the Economics lens →

Behavioral Science

Through this lens it connects to Heuristic, Bounded rationality, Prospect theory and Choice architecture.

Cognitive bias through the Behavioral Science lens →

Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.

This idea also appears in…

The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”

Concepts

The scientific picture
  • Connects 13 other ideas across 3 disciplines.
  • A cross-disciplinary bridge — its connections reach into 3 other fields.
  • Most of its connections are of the “Kind & structure” kind.

Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.

Sources