3 New Cognitive Biases That Exist Because of Technology
If you don’t know what a cognitive bias is, the first definition that appears on Google says:
A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make.
Or more simply put, a flaw in your brain's logic that might seem justified but isn’t. One of my favorite cognitive biases is the anchoring effect and you can read my explanation of what that is here.
For whatever reason, I like to keep track of cognitive biases because there are a ton of them out there and it’s good to brush up on them every once in a while.
Just recently, I found three more that haven’t existed up until recently because of this thing we all have access to called the internet and technology.
Automation Bias
The first new cognitive bias is called the Automation Bias.
It’s defined as — “the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even if it is correct.”
Essentially this bias exists when we put too much trust in technology. But that begs the question, how…
