Cognitive Biases and Cranio Rectal Inversion Index

Just a reminder that the purpose of this discussion aims at stimulating thought and self awareness as tools to help those in recovery from trauma learn how to make safer choices. To make the discussion a bit lighter, we've defined Cognitive Biases as “CranioRectal Inversions” (CRI).

There are more posts to come which will first be featured at No Longer Quivering where you might want to watch for them, and they'll eventually find their way back here. For now, here are the posts on the subject through 2018. This list is not comprehensive, nor is it organized in a particular manner, save that they are loosely organized by general type (social, attributional, etc.). There are at least this many more to come.

Introduction

Falling Off the Ladder of Inference

• Part 1
• Part 2

How Cognitive Bias Influences Us

• When Beliefs are not Shaped by Scrutiny and Debate
• When Cognitive Bias Hits Close to Home
• Learned Wisdom from Cognitive Bias
• Kiss Your Monster On the Nose 
• Deeply Planted Seeds of Cognitive Bias

Cognitive Dissonance (Intro/Dynamicsarchived March 2009)

• Revisiting Cognitive Dissonance
• Study of Stress of Forced Compliance
• External vs Internal Dissonance
• Self-Justification's Role

Commitment and Consistency Heuristics (Cialdini's Weapons of Influence)

• Commitment and Consistency (with Swimmer's Body Illusion)

Confidence and Positivity

• Confirmation Bias

• Wishful Thinking in Spiritual Abuse
• Dunning-Kreuger Effect
  • More on Dunning-Krueger
• Optimism Bias
  • Objectification
    • Halo Effect(Idealization)
    • Scapegoats(Denigration)
  • Optimism as a Coping Mechanism
    • I:Optimism's Curse
    • II:Mature Optimism's Gift of Insight
    • III:Toxic Shame in Optimism
    • IV:Optimism Outlives its Usefulness
    • V:The Cost of Optimism's Errors
  • Self-Worth's Role in Optimism
  • Pathways to Peace through Optimism
  • Intro to Naïve Realism(in the discussion of memory)

Perception and Causality Errors

• Hindsight Bias
• Change-Blindness
• Blind Spot
• Salience & Status Quo Biases
• Actor-Observer Bias
• Projection
• Swimmer's Body Illusion

Social Influence (Cialdini's Social Proofand Liking)

• Review of Weapons of Influence
  • Merging of Liking and Social Proof
• Cheerleader Effect
• Interpersonal Conflict
  • Perspective vs Lies

Attribution and Availability Errors

• Anchoring & Misinformation Biases
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Availability Bias
• Attribution Bias
• Asymmetric Insight Error
• Representative Error
• False Consensus Bias
  • (Conformity & the Asch Study)
• Correspondence Error
• Survivorship Bias
• Identifiable Victim Bias

Memory Illusions

• Self-Justification of Ego-Driven Memory
• Systematic Memory Distortion
• Challenging Memory (Metamemory)
• Elizabeth Loftus on the Memory Illusion

31Mar19