Drug-misinfluence tendency

What it is

Alcohol and other drugs, including addiction, distort judgment and behaviour, often while we feel fine.

Related

• Overconfidence effect bias
  Alcohol in particular inflates confidence.
• Stress-influence tendency bias
  Substances and stress both alter judgment, and stress can lead to substance use.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#20: Drug-misinfluence tendency

References

• Wikipedia: Drug-misinfluence 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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