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Articles on Biases

Explore the fascinating world of cognitive biases and their impact on decision-making and marketing. Our articles highlight how these unconscious thought patterns influence our behavior and how you can harness these insights for more effective communication and marketing.

Written on April 14, 2023

Decoy effect: how your brain is deceived

The decoy effect makes either option more attractive, by adding a third alternative to it. You control the preference of people who have to make a choice, by...

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Written on April 7, 2023

Survivorship bias: what is it? Examples & tips

The Survivorship bias is a fallacy that makes you look only at the good outcomes. So do you judge the start-up world by the success stories such as Facebook, Adyen and Thuisbezorgd?

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Written on March 31, 2023

Peak-end rule (rule of peak and expiration)

What is the Peak-end Rule? It is a psychological insight that describes that primarily the peak and the end of an experience determine how a person remembers it.

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Written on March 17, 2023

Sunk Cost Fallacy (Concorde Effect): Definition, Examples and Application

What is the Sunk Cost Fallacy? It is the tendency to continue with something when an investment of money, effort or time has been made, even though it has...

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Written on Feb. 13, 2023

Gambler's Fallacy.

The Gambler's Fallacy is the brain's tendency to assume that the probability of something happening changes, as a result of what has happened before

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Written on January 27, 2023

Availability heuristic.

The Availability Heuristic is a mental fallacy based on availability. Of that which is readily available in the brain, we wrongly expect it to occur frequently or recur...

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Written on October 31, 2022

Achoring bias: what is it? And how can you use it?

The powerful effect of the "anchoring bias" is a not to be underestimated bias that is automatically created in our brain. We'll explain how this effect affects customers in their...

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Written on October 20, 2022

Endowment effect: what is it? + examples for entrepreneurs

The endowment effect describes how customers place more value on something that (instinctively) belongs to them than on something that does not (yet) belong to them. So make your customers already...

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Written on October 20, 2022

Mere exposure effect: what is it? + marketing examples

The brain prefers to store at what feels familiar. The mere exposure effect describes how familiar stimuli (words read, images viewed, sounds heard, etc.) feel more pleasant to the brain, and...

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Written on October 7, 2022

Mimesis, what can you do with it in online marketing?

Mimesis is Ancient Greek and means imitation, imitation, imitation. It is also a concept developed by French anthropologist René Girard. He observed that much (buying) behavior is not spontaneous or out of...

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