cognitive dissonance and cognitive biases

• cognitive dissonance is the psychological tension that occurs when our thoughts, feelings and/or behaviors do not align with one another.
• cognitive biases are unconscious ,systematic tendencies to interpret info in a way that is neither rational nor based or objective reality.
• confirmation bias is the tendency to search for and accept info that supports our prior belief or behaviors and ignores contradictory info.
• observer bias is the tendency to attribute our own actions to external factors and situational causes while attributing other peoples actions to internal factors.
• self serving bias is the tendency to attribute positive success to our internal character and actions and attribute our failures to external factors or situational causes.
• false consensus bias is the tendency to overstimulate the degree to which other people chare the same ideas and attitude as we do.
• halo effect is the tendency for the impression we form about one quality of a person to influence our overall beliefs about a person in other respects.