The Straw Man Fallacy - Misrepresenting an Argument to Refute It More Easily
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The Status Quo Bias - Preferring Things to Stay the Same over Change
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The Slippery Slope Fallacy - Arguing That One Action Will Lead to Extreme Consequences
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The Self-Serving Bias - How We Attribute Success to Ourselves and Failures to External Factors
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The Red Herring Fallacy - Introducing Irrelevant Information to Distract from the Issue
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The Representativeness Heuristic - Judging Likelihood on Similarity
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The Mere Exposure Effect - Developing Preferences due to Repeated Exposure
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The Overconfidence Bias - Overestimating Your Knowledge and Abilities
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The Planning Fallacy - Underestimating the Time and Costs Required for Tasks
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The False Dilemma - Presenting Only Two Choices When More Exist
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The Halo Effect - How First Impressions Influence Overall Perceptions
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The Framing Effect - How Information Presentation Affects Decision-Making
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The Gambler's Fallacy - Believing Past Events Influence Future Probabilities
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The Hindsight Bias - The Illusion of Foreseeing Outcomes After They Occur
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The In-Group Bias - Favoring Members of Your Own Group over Others
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The Appeal to Emotion Fallacy - Manipulating Emotions Rather Than Presenting Valid Arguments
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The Bandwagon Effect - How Popular Opinion Influences Individual Choices
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The False Consensus Effect - Believing Others Share Your Views More Than They Do
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect - Why Incompetent Individuals Overestimate Their Abilities
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The Correlation-Causation Fallacy - Assuming Correlation Implies Causation
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The Confirmation Bias - How Seeking Information That Confirms Your Beliefs Skews Reality
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The Ad Hominem Fallacy - Attacking the Person Instead of the Argument
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The Anchoring Effect - How Initial Information Influences Subsequent Judgments
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The Appeal to Authority Fallacy - Relying on Authority Figures for Validation
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