Index

“Everyone is responsible for their own behaviour… Except me!”

"When making a decision, I have too much confidence in machines, and tend to neglect my own judgement."

“I see myself described accurately in vague and generic descriptions of personality."

“I misjudge the probability of an event by ignoring important background information.”

“If it corresponds to my knowledge and beliefs, it must be true.”

“Other people are more biased than I. "

“I exaggerate the benefits of an option after choosing it.”

“When I research a topic, I favour information that supports my hypothesis and ignore information that contradicts it.”

“I judge it to be more probable that two events will occur together than that one of them will occur alone.”

"The less I am qualified, the more I overestimate my competence. The more I am qualified, the more I underestimate my competence."

“Everyone seems to agree with me, so I must be right.”

“I evaluate an outcome relative to the amount of effort it took to achieve it.”

“I keep going in the wrong direction despite increasingly negative results.”

"I believe that social groups have a distinct and unchanging essence."

"When I must find a solution to a problem, I become fixated on the first idea or perspective that comes to mind, to the detriment of other possibilities."

“I explain the actions of a person through their personal characteristics while underestimating the influence of the situation.”

"When I go to the casino, I choose machines that haven't won in a long time since they are due to win."

“I use a first impression to draw a ‘bigger picture’ conclusion.”

“I knew it was going to happen all along. "

"It is not luck, I did it."

"I am under the impression that I know and understand more than what I really know and understand."

“I believe my thoughts and feelings are more accessible to others than they actually are.”

“I am convinced there is a link between two events I have witnessed, but they are not related.”

"When we think about how we will react to possible future events, we tend to overestimate both the intensity and duration of our emotions."

"My group is better than yours."

"When someone does something, like cut me off in traffic, I assume they did it on purpose."

“You reap what you sow.”

"After doing a good deed, I can afford a socially undesirable deed."

"We care less about future experiences than we do about near ones. "

"When I have to assess a situation, negative events weigh more in the balance than positive events."

"It won't happen to me; it only happens to others."

“I tend to underestimate the differences among members of a group when I am not part of it.”

"I don’t notice plants in my environment, and I don’t recognize their importance. I think they are inferior to animals."

“The expectations I have of someone can influence their performance.”

“The sole act of naming something makes me believe it exists.”

"I judge repeated information as being more likely to be true than new information."

“What I predict comes true.”

“If I create an obstacle for myself before performing a difficult task, I will win regardless of whether I fail or succeed.”

"If I succeed, it is my doing, but if I fail, it is not my fault."

“I take other people's actions as a sign that they are attracted to me when they are not.”

"To look good to these people, I'm going to say what they want to hear instead of what I really think."

“Women are gentle and motherly, so it's normal for them to stay home to take care of the children.”

“I am more likely to repeat actions when I succeed, I am more likely to change actions when I fail.”

"I remember interrupted or ongoing tasks and problems more easily than I remember ones that are completed or solved."

“I feel in competition with certain people and I think that any gain for them inevitably entails a loss for me.”