Collecting cognitive science patterns that are at play on social media

In this article Nir Eyal interviews Buster Benson, a Slack product manager (and former Twitter), about cognitive biases, and who has done extensive work in this field:

He used the Wikipedia page referenced above a lot, but found it not served his needs:

_“However, honestly, the Wikipedia page is a bit of a tangled mess. Despite trying to absorb the information of this page many times over the years, very little of it seems to stick. I often scan it and feel like I’m not able to find the bias I’m looking for, and then quickly forget what I’ve learned. I think this has to do with how the page has organically evolved over the years.”

Read the Medium article. It is super-informative. It led to the Biases overview depicted in Editable list of cognitive biases involved in smartphones and social media and shown below:

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