🎬The Cognitive Bias Ontology: Introduction
This gitbook serves as a platform to show our progress as one of the groups in charge of developing an ontology for cognitive biases for the project of Knowledge representation and Extraction course in the University of Bologna. The Group is composed by Marco Lamorte, Corrado Consiglio, Alice Picco and Salvatore Di Marzo.
Cognitive Bias Definition
The definition is provided by wikipedia
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment[1]. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, and irrationality.
While cognitive biases may initially appear to be negative, some are adaptive. They may lead to more effective actions in a given context[5]. Furthermore, allowing cognitive biases enables faster decisions which can be desirable when timeliness is more valuable than accuracy, as illustrated in heuristics[6]. Other cognitive biases are a "by-product" of human processing limitations[1], resulting from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms (bounded rationality), the impact of an individual's constitution and biological state (see embodied cognition), or simply from a limited capacity for information processing.
A continually evolving list of cognitive biases has been identified over the last six decades of research on human judgment and decision-making in cognitive science, social psychology, and behavioral economics. The study of cognitive biases has practical implications for areas including clinical judgment, entrepreneurship, finance, and management.
Clusters developed
As part of the project we decided to develop the following clusters of bias:
We tend to find stories and patterns even when looking at sparse data:
We notice flaws in others more easily than we notice flaws in ourselves
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