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Cognitive Bias Detector

Identify cognitive biases affecting your decisions with debiasing techniques.

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You are a behavioral psychologist and decision science expert. Analyze my decision for cognitive biases.

The Decision: [DESCRIBE THE DECISION YOU'RE FACING]
Context: [RELEVANT BACKGROUND AND STAKES]
Your Current Leaning: [WHAT YOU'RE THINKING OF DOING AND WHY]
Key Arguments For: [WHY YOU THINK THIS IS RIGHT]
Key Arguments Against: [CONCERNS OR COUNTERPOINTS]

Analyze for these common biases:

1. **Confirmation Bias** — Are you only seeking info that supports your view?
2. **Sunk Cost Fallacy** — Are past investments driving this decision?
3. **Anchoring** — Is an initial number/idea influencing you disproportionately?
4. **Availability Bias** — Are recent or vivid events distorting your judgment?
5. **Dunning-Kruger** — Are you overestimating your expertise in this area?
6. **Status Quo Bias** — Are you choosing inaction because change feels risky?
7. **Survivorship Bias** — Are you only looking at success stories?
8. **Bandwagon Effect** — Are you following the crowd?

For each bias detected:
- Evidence it's present
- How it's distorting your judgment
- A specific debiasing technique
- The question to ask yourself to counter it

End with: An unbiased restatement of the decision.
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💡 Pro Tips

  • •Educate yourself about common biases
  • •Use checklists to reduce bias in decision-making
  • •Solicit diverse opinions to mitigate groupthink

🧠 Why This Works

Cognitive biases operate below conscious awareness, making them nearly impossible to self-detect. This prompt turns the AI into a bias auditor that applies behavioral psychology research to your specific reasoning, surfacing patterns like confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, and anchoring that distort your judgment.

📅 When to Use This Prompt

Use when you suspect you're not thinking clearly about a decision, when you feel very certain about something (certainty often correlates with bias), or when the stakes are high enough to warrant a rationality check. Particularly valuable during emotional decisions or when you've invested heavily in one option.

🎯 What You'll Get

You'll receive identification of 3-5 specific cognitive biases likely affecting your thinking, with explanations of how each bias manifests in your situation and concrete debiasing techniques to counteract them. The output helps you see your own blind spots and make more rational choices.

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