17 Biases

Memory Psychology Biases.

How users remember, forget, or recall information.

Memory

Provide Exit Points

Invite users to leave your app at the right moment

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Delighters

People remember more unexpected and playful pleasures

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Memory

Shaping

Incrementally reinforcing actions to get closer to a target behavior

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Memory

Chunking

People remember grouped information better

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Memory

Storytelling Effect

People remember stories better than facts alone

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Memory

Availability Heuristic

Users favor recent and available information over past information

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Memory

Zeigarnik Effect

People remember incomplete tasks better than completed ones

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Spacing Effect

People learn more effectively when study sessions are spaced out

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Memory

Recognition Over Recall

It's easier to recognize things than recall them from memory

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Memory

Serial Position Effect

It's easier for users to recall the first and last items of a list

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Memory

Sensory Appeal

Users engage more with things appealing to multiple senses

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Memory

Picture Superiority Effect

Users remember pictures better than words

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Memory

Internal Trigger

When users are prompted to take action based on a memory

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Memory

Peak-End Rule

People judge an experience by its peak and how it ends.

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Memory

Method of Loci

People remember things more when they're associated with a location

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Memory

Endowment Effect

Users value something more if they feel it's theirs

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Negativity Bias

Users recall negative events more than positive ones

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17 Memory Biases – Cognitive Bias Library