100 Little Ideas

A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works.

  1. Depressive Realism
  2. Skill Compensation
  3. Curse of Knowledge
  4. Base Rates
  5. Base-Rate Neglect
  6. Compassion Fade
  7. System Justification Theory
  8. 3 Men Make a Tiger
  9. Burdian’s Ass
  10. Pareto Principle
  11. Sturgeon’s Law
  12. The Matthew Effect
  13. Impostor Syndrome
  14. Anscombe’s Quartet
  15. Ringelmann Effect
  16. Semmelweis Reflex
  17. False-Consensus Effect
  18. Boomerang Effect
  19. Chronological Snobbery
  20. Outgroup Homogeneity
  21. Planck’s Principle
  22. McNamara Fallacy
  23. Courtesy Bias
  24. Berkson’s Paradox
  25. Group Attribution Error
  26. Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
  27. Ludic Fallacy
  28. Normalcy Bias
  29. Actor-Observer Asymmetry
  30. The 90-9-1 Rule
  31. Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
  32. Fredkin’s Paradox
  33. Poisoning the Well
  34. Golem Effect
  35. Appeal to Consequences
  36. Plain Folks Fallacy
  37. Behavioral Inevitability
  38. Apophenia
  39. Self-Handicapping
  40. Hanlon’s Razor
  41. False Uniqueness Effect
  42. Hard-Easy Effect
  43. Neglect of Probability
  44. Cobra Effect
  45. Braess’s Paradox
  46. Non-Ergodic
  47. Pollyanna Principle
  48. Declinism
  49. Empathy Gap
  50. Abilene Paradox
  51. Collective Narcissism
  52. Moral Luck
  53. Feedback Loops
  54. Hawthorne Effect
  55. Perfect Solution Fallacy
  56. Weasel Words
  57. Hormesis
  58. Backfiring Effect
  59. Reflexivity
  60. Second Half of the Chessboard
  61. Peter Principle
  62. Friendship Paradox
  63. Hedonic Treadmill
  64. Positive Illusions
  65. Ironic Process Theory
  66. Clustering Illusions
  67. Foundational Species
  68. Bizarreness Effect
  69. Nonlinearity
  70. Moderating Relationship
  71. Denomination Effect
  72. Woozle Effect
  73. Google Scholar Effect
  74. Inversion
  75. Gambler’s Ruin
  76. Principle of Least Effort
  77. Dunning-Kruger Effect
  78. Knightian Uncertainty
  79. Aumann’s Agreement Theorem
  80. Focusing Effect
  81. The Middle Ground Fallacy
  82. Rebound Effect
  83. Ostrich Effect
  84. Founder’s Syndrome
  85. In-Group Favoritism
  86. Bounded Rationality
  87. Luxury Paradox
  88. Meat Paradox
  89. Fluency Heuristic
  90. Historical Wisdom
  91. Fact-Check Scarcity Principle
  92. Emotional Contagion
  93. Tribal Affiliation
  94. Emotional Competence

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