Neomania

What it is

An excessive attraction to what is new, and an assumption that newer means better.

Related

• Appeal to novelty fallacy
  Neomania, the attraction to the new, is the bias that makes appeals to novelty persuasive.
• Mere-exposure effect bias
  Novelty is attractive because it is the opposite of the familiar: an effect that cuts both ways.
• Zeigarnik effect bias
  Cliffhangers and novelty both keep us hooked by what is incomplete or new.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#69: Neomania

References

• Wikipedia: Neomania 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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