Across
- 2. The tendency to put more value on things you already own
- 5. When a person mistakenly believes they are better than others
- 7. The tendency people have to be more confident in their own abilities
- 9. The tendency to regard losses as considerably more important than gains of comparable magnitude
- 11. The tendency to conform to the behaviors and beliefs of the people around you
- 12. The tendency to return to a baseline level of happiness regardless of whether you go through a positive or negative experience or event
- 13. The tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence
- 15. Costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered
Down
- 1. The tendency to feel anxiety/fear that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media website
- 3. When a person has an exaggerated certainty that an answer is correct
- 4. When a person believes they are better at something than they actually are
- 6. The use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service
- 8. The subfield of economics that applies psychological insights into human behavior and to explain economic decision making
- 10. Fallacy The tendency to make decisions about a current situation based on what resources you have already invested in the situation
- 14. A strategy used to combat loss aversion by imagining that overnight something you own has been replaced with cash, then determining whether you would prefer to keep the cash or buy the item back
- 16. A subconscious error in thinking that leads to irrational decision making