Disliking/hating tendency

What it is

Munger's counterpart to liking: a tendency to dislike people, groups or ideas that threaten our own, distorting facts in the process.

Related

• In-group bias bias
  Dislike of the out-group is the flip side of favouring the in-group.
• Liking bias bias
  Munger's liking and disliking tendencies are a pair: we distort facts in favour of what we like and against what we dislike.
• Envy bias
  Envy turns into dislike of those who have more.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#3: Disliking/hating tendency

References

• Wikipedia: Disliking/hating tendency en.wikipedia.org
• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment fs.blog
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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