ajatusvirheiden
Ajatusvirheiden is a Finnish term that translates literally to “thought errors” or “cognitive errors.” It is used in psychology and behavioral science to describe systematic deviations from rational thinking or accurate perception. These errors are a core concept in the study of cognitive biases, which were formalized in the landmark work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970s and 1980s. Ajatusvirheiden encompass a wide range of mental distortions, including overconfidence, confirmation bias, availability heuristic, and framing effects, all of which can influence decision making, problem solving, and interpersonal judgments.
In everyday discourse, the term is often applied to situations where individuals hold beliefs that are not
The scholarly literature on ajatusvirheiden stresses that while some level of bias is inevitable in human