Compassion fade is a cognitive bias, which refers to the decrease in the compassion one shows for the people in trouble as the number of the victims increase.
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The Cheerleader Effect
Theory has it that individuals look better while they are in a group, whereas if you isolate them, the result may not be as aesthetically appealing.
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Actor-Observer Bias
The Actor-Observer bias refers to the tendency to relate our own mistakes to external factors while attributing other people’s behaviors to internal causes.
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Survivorship bias: dead men don’t tell tales
Survivorship Bias refers to our tendency to focus only on the winners and neglect the losers.
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The Anchoring Effect: Relying on evidence at immediate reach
In many situations, people make estimates by starting from an initial value that is adjusted to yield the final answer. That is, different starting points yield different estimates, which are biased toward the initial values. We call this phenomenon the anchoring effect.
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