Tag

conflict

Entries tagged with conflict - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

6 concepts

Psychological Phenomenon

Competitive Victimhood 

The tendency for groups in conflict to compete over who has suffered more, using their pain to claim moral authority and deflect accountability.

 Cognitive Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error 

The tendency to explain other people's behaviour as a result of their character while explaining your own as a result of your circumstances.

 Cognitive Bias

In-Group/Out-Group Bias 

The tendency to favour people in your own group and view those outside it with suspicion, distrust, or hostility.

 Cognitive Bias

Naive Realism 

The belief that you see the world as it objectively is - and that anyone who disagrees must be biased, uninformed, or irrational.

 Psychological Defence

Psychological Projection 

Attributing your own uncomfortable feelings, motives, or traits to someone else.

 Psychological Phenomenon

Victim-Perpetrator Cycle 

Groups that have suffered persecution can, once they gain power, go on to persecute others - often using their past suffering as justification.