Adaptive bias
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Adaptive bias is the idea that the human brain has evolved to reason adaptively, rather than truthfully or even rationally, and that cognitive bias may have evolved as a mechanism to reduce the overall cost of cognitive errors as opposed to merely reducing the number of cognitive errors, when faced with making a decision under conditions of uncertainty.
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See also
- Guided variation and biased transmission – Adaptive biases in dual inheritance theory
- Psychological adaptation
- Curse of knowledge
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