Scientific Definition
Favoring suggestions from automated systems over conflicting human judgment.
Plain-English Definition
Favoring suggestions from automated systems over conflicting human judgment.
Feynman Explanation
If the dashboard says it, it must be true.
Core Principle
Favoring suggestions from automated systems over conflicting human judgment.
Mechanisms
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AI-era decision-making is structurally vulnerable to this bias.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
If the dashboard says it, it must be true.
Examples
- Ignoring a sales rep's intuition because the forecast model disagrees.
- AI-era decision-making is structurally vulnerable to this bias.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Pair every model output with the question: 'What would override this?'
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Pair every model output with the question: 'What would override this?'
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Our perception is shaped by what we selectively pay attention to.
Two options seen side-by-side look more different than they are in isolation.
We choose more variety than we'll actually want when picking for the future all at once.
We overestimate the intensity and duration of emotional reactions.
Judging a decision by its outcome rather than by the quality of the process.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Inattention or forgetfulness caused by low attention, hyperfocus, or distraction.
Forgetting to compare an offer with the next-best alternative.
Outcomes that could have happened but did not.
Overthinking a situation so that decision-making stalls.
The first number on the table silently sets the range for every number after it.
Tversky & Kahneman's classic: identical outcomes flip from 'risk averse' to 'risk seeking' when framed as lives saved vs. lives lost.