Cognitive Bias Reasons

 

Reasons of cognitive bias can be categorized into three parts: heuristics, artifacts, and error management (Haselton, et.al., 2015). Heuristics are processing methods to produce decision using shortcuts because there is limitation in time and human ability. Heuristic principles reduce complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974). Biases as artifact found as a result of skilled researches, they conclude that humans have evolved problem‐solving mechanisms tailored to problems recurrently present over evolutionary history and humans can be shown to use appropriate reasoning strategies. Error management biases can be generally sorted into three broad categories: biases pertaining to judgments of threat, biases pertaining to evaluations of interpersonal relationships, and biases pertaining to evaluations of the self (Haselton, et.al., 2015).