Our view of the world and all of our interactions with it are shaped by our perceptual filters. These filters are a function of our internal biases. Humans are a bias engine and the study of the nature of our biases has been a fertile field of study for psychologists. It has even been posited that we possess a “bias bias,” suggesting we overestimate the impact of cognitive biases on other people’s thinking.
However, a paper by Oeberst and Imhoff has suggested our catalogue of biases can essentially be reduced to a small set of core beliefs with confirmation bias sitting as the ultimate bias. The paper’s authors list the following as our cornerstone biases.
