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CognitiveBiasOntology - Report
An overview of the development journey of the Cognitive Bias Ontology - a KRE Project
As one of the group responsible for the KRE (Knowledge Representation and Extraction) ongoing project of creating a comprehensive ontology for cognitive biases, this report serves as a diary to outline the progress that has been made in our contribution to the modeling of the Cognitive Bias Ontology.
The group consists of Evan Arnoldi, Leonardo Zili and Nicole Liggeri. We found that our shared interest and urgency to finish the project as soon as possible gathered us in the group, and the progress we have made so far have been fruitful.
A cognitive bias is an interesting phenomenon that has been observed by various researchers. By definition, it is "systematic and universally occurring tendencies, inclinations, or dispositions that skew or distort information processes in ways that make their outcome inaccurate, suboptimal or simply wrong." (Korteling and Toet, 2020) [1]
This project challenged us to develop a new ontology to describe some of the different varieties and forms that a cognitive bias can present itself as.
We based our view of these biases on the Cognitive Bias Codex, an handy visualization of the 188 cognitive biases listed by Wikipedia.
Out of the 20 clusters of biases in the codex, each describing a specific category in which the biases act, we focused our efforts in describing two of these, serving as the base of the ontology developed as a result of the project.
The chosen clusters are:
Bizarre, funny, visually striking, or anthropomorphic things stick out more than non-bizarre/unfunny things.
- Bizarreness effect
- Humor effect
- Von Restorff effect
- Picture superiority effect
- Self-relevance effect
- Negativity bias
We notice when something has changed.
- Anchoring
- Conservatism
- Contrast effect
- Distinction effect
- Focusing effect
- Framing effect
- Money illusion
- Weber-Fechner law
1. Korteling, J. E., and Toet, A. (2020). “Cognitive Biases,” in Reference Module inNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands:Elsevier). doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-809324-5.24105-9
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