Availability Heuristics: Where Overthinking Is A Luxury

What's the Problem, Anyway?

Availability Heuristics: the mental shortcut where you think something is more likely because it's more memorable, not because it's actually true.

Ever find yourself overthinking a decision, convinced that your aunt's cousin's neighbor got hit by a meteorite because it was a Friday the 13th, in 1987, during a lunar eclipse? That's Availability Heuristics at work.

Subpage: Overthinking: The Secret to Success (Or Not)

Or, if you'd like to learn more about the other biases that plague our minds, visit: Cognitive Biases

Disclaimer: this site is not responsible for any mental health issues resulting from excessive overthinking.