Inattentional blindness

What it is

Failing to notice clearly visible things when attention is elsewhere, while believing we see everything.

Related

• Salience bias bias
  We attend to what stands out and miss the rest, while believing we see everything.
• Introspection illusion bias
  Both are overconfidence about the mind's workings: we think we see and know our own minds more than we do.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#88: Illusion of attention

References

• Wikipedia: Inattentional blindness 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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