1580 || contrast effect

Make Your Damn Bed · Oct 14, 2025 · 9m

The contrast effect is a bias where the perception of something is distorted by being compared to something else, making the differences between them seem greater than they are.

SOURCES:

BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18

Contrast effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_effect#:~:text=%5Bclarification%20needed%5D-,Domains,The%20checker%20shadow%20illusion

Anchoring Bias: https://medium.com/illumination/anchoring-bias-how-your-mind-tricks-you-into-wrong-decisions-c60b1ef8728e

More biases here: Bizarreness effect, Humor…