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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Risk Perception''' β The subjective judgment people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. * '''Prospect Theory''' β The finding that people fear losses more than they value gains (Loss Aversion). * '''Overconfidence Effect''' β The tendency to overestimate our own ability to control events or predict the future. * '''Optimism Bias''' β The belief that "Bad things happen to other people, but not to me." * '''Gambler's Fallacy''' β The mistaken belief that if an event happened more frequently than normal in the past, it will happen less frequently in the future. * '''Certainty Effect''' β The tendency to overweight outcomes that are considered certain compared to outcomes that are merely probable. * '''Risk Aversion''' β Preferring a certain outcome over a gamble with a higher expected value. * '''Black Swan''' β An unpredictable, high-impact event that people try to rationalize "after the fact" as if it were predictable. </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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