Bias Study Simulations

Experience cognitive biases firsthand through our interactive simulations that reenact famous psychological studies. These experiments bring to life the groundbreaking research that revealed how human minds consistently deviate from rational judgment.

Survivorship Bias vignette
Decision-Making

Survivorship Bias

Mangel, M., & Samaniego, F. J. (1984). Abraham Wald's work on aircraft survivability. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79(386), 259-267.

Confirmation Bias vignette
Decision-Making

Confirmation Bias

Wason, P. C. (1968). Reasoning about a Rule. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 20(3), 273–281.

Availability Heuristic vignette
Decision-Making

Availability Heuristic

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

Sunk Cost Fallacy vignette
Decision-Making

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Arkes, H. R., & Blumer, C. (1985). The psychology of sunk cost. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 35(1), 124-140.

False Consensus Effect vignette
Social

False Consensus Effect

Ross, L., Greene, D., & House, P. (1977). The false consensus effect: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13(3), 279-301.

Hindsight Bias vignette
Memory

Hindsight Bias

Fischhoff, B. (1975). Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, 1(3), 288–299.

Rosy Retrospection vignette
Memory

Rosy Retrospection

Mitchell, T. R., Thompson, L., Peterson, E., & Cronk, R. (1997). Temporal Adjustments in the Evaluation of Events: The "Rosy View". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33(4), 421-448.

Gambler's Fallacy vignette
Reasoning

Gambler's Fallacy

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1971). Belief in the law of small numbers. Psychological Bulletin, 76(2), 105–110.

Base Rate Fallacy vignette
Reasoning

Base Rate Fallacy

Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1973). On the psychology of prediction. Psychological Review, 80(4), 237-251.

Dunning–Kruger Effect vignette
Reasoning

Dunning–Kruger Effect

Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121-1134.

Status Quo Bias vignette
Decision-Making

Status Quo Bias

Samuelson, W., & Zeckhauser, R. (1988). Status quo bias in decision making. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1(1), 7–59.

Anchoring Bias vignette
Decision-Making

Anchoring Bias

Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.

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