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  2. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    Some researchers include a metacognitive component in their definition. In this view, the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence.

  3. Alexithymia - Wikipedia

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    Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions.

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Occurs when someone who does something good gives themselves permission to be less good in the future. Non-adaptive choice switching After experiencing a bad outcome with a decision problem, the tendency to avoid the choice previously made when faced with the same decision problem again, even though the choice was optimal.

  5. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The "whole truth" is defined as learning "something about everything", "everything about something", or "everything about everything". In reality, a historian "can only hope to know something about something". [36] Homunculus fallacy – using a "middle-man" for explanation; this sometimes leads to regressive middle-men.

  6. Curse of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    The term "curse of knowledge" was coined in a 1989 Journal of Political Economy article by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber.The aim of their research was to counter the "conventional assumptions in such (economic) analyses of asymmetric information in that better-informed agents can accurately anticipate the judgement of less-informed agents".

  7. Fear of missing out - Wikipedia

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    McGinnis describes FOBO as a byproduct of a hyper-busy, hyper-connected world in which everything seems possible, and, as a result, you are spoiled for choice. [52] ROMO is a term coined during the COVID-19 pandemic that stands for Reality of Missing Out. ROMO describes the feeling of knowing that you are missing out on things. [17]

  8. Definitions of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    This includes clarifying the distinction between knowing something and not knowing it, for example, pointing out what is the difference between knowing that smoking causes cancer and not knowing this. [1] [2] Sometimes the expressions "conception of knowledge", "theory of knowledge", and "analysis of knowledge" are used as synonyms.

  9. Hindsight bias - Wikipedia

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    This can cause faulty memory, which can lead to hindsight thinking and believing in knowing something they do not. [44] Delusion-prone individuals with schizophrenia can falsely jump to conclusions. [45] Jumping to conclusions can lead to hindsight, which strongly influences the delusional conviction in individuals with schizophrenia. [45]