Mother of all Bias Models

Towards parsimony in mental models.

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I had a Big fat list of Mental Models and it is exploding. A new paper proposes parsimony.¹

Six fundamental beliefs that bias our view of the world ²:

1. My experience is a reasonable reference.
2. I make correct assessments of the world.
3. I am good.
4. My group is a reasonable reference.
5. My group is good.
6. People's attributes (not context) shape outcomes.

Footnotes

1. Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221148147 ↩

2. Discovered via this tweet. ↩