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Physiognomy - The pseudoscientific practice of judging character or personality from facial features and physical appearance.
Thin-Slicing - The ability to make accurate judgments about people or situations based on very limited information.
Failure Wisdom - The accumulated insight and judgment that comes from experiencing and reflecting on failures.
Neglect of Probability - The tendency to disregard probability when making decisions under uncertainty, focusing instead on the magnitude of outcomes regardless of their likelihood.
Proportionality Bias - The tendency to assume that big events must have big causes, leading to the rejection of simple explanations for significant outcomes.
Phronesis - Aristotle's concept of practical wisdom - knowing what to do in specific situations.
Contrast Effect - The cognitive bias where the perception of something is enhanced or diminished by comparison to a recently observed contrasting stimulus.
Subadditivity Effect - The tendency to judge the probability of an event as less than the sum of its parts, or to estimate that the parts of a category are greater than the whole.
Defensive Attribution - A cognitive bias where people assign more blame to a harm-doer as the outcome's severity increases, and less blame when they identify with the victim.
Epoché - A Greek philosophical concept meaning the suspension of judgment, creating a fixed reference point in time for evaluation.
Halo Effect - A cognitive bias where positive impressions in one area influence perceptions in unrelated areas.
Naive Cynicism - The tendency to expect others to be more self-interested and cynical than they actually are, assuming negative motives when neutral or positive ones may apply.
Overconfidence Effect - A cognitive bias where people's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgments.

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