Logical Fallacies

# More Fallacies & Biases

1. **Sycophancy** - Most people will agree with you in person and disagree behind your back. Not out of malice but because confrontation feels more dangerous than honesty to most humans.

2. **Halo Effect** - The moment someone is attractive or well dressed your brain automatically assumes they are smarter and more trustworthy. Appearance shapes judgment before words even begin.

3. **Bystander Effect** - The more people present in an emergency the less likely anyone is to help. Everyone assumes someone else will act. Crowds can make people invisible to each other.

4. **Social Mirroring** - Without realising it you absorb the habits energy and even vocabulary of people around you. You do not just choose your circle. Your circle quietly chooses who you become.

5. **Optimism Bias** - Almost every human being believes bad things are more likely to happen to others than to themselves. It keeps us moving forward but it also keeps us dangerously unprepared.

6. **Fundamental Attribution Error** - When you make a mistake you blame the situation. When someone else makes the same mistake you blame their character. Everyone does this and almost nobody catches it.

7. **Conformity Bias** - Put a person in a room where everyone believes something wrong and most of the time that person will start believing it too. Belonging feels safer than being right.

8. **Reciprocity Trap** - When someone does something small for you your brain feels an obligation to return the favour even if what they ask for in return is far larger than what they gave.

9. **In Group Bias** - Your brain automatically trusts and favours people who belong to the same group as you whether that group is a nationality a football team or a shared taste in music.

10. **Projection** - People often accuse others of the exact behaviour they themselves are guilty of. What irritates you most in someone else is frequently something unresolved inside yourself.

11. **Status Anxiety** - Most purchasing decisions are not about the product. They are about how owning it makes a person feel in the eyes of others. Image drives more economy than need ever will.

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Logical Fallacies

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