Expectation effect

What it is

What we expect to happen changes what we perceive and sometimes what happens, through attention, behaviour and belief.

Related

• Confirmation bias bias
  Expectations steer what we notice and remember, which tends to confirm them.
• Framing effect bias
  What we expect, and how an experience is framed, shapes how we perceive it.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#62: Expectations

References

• Wikipedia: Expectation effect en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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