We are pleased to introduce the collection Highlights in Psychology: Cognitive Bias.

Cognitive biases are unconscious errors in thinking that arise when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and impact the decisions and judgements they subsequently make. They often result from our mind’s efforts to simplify the complex world we live in. Confirmation bias, hindsight bias, self-serving bias, anchoring bias, availability bias, the framing effect, and inattentional blindness are some of the most common examples.

This Research Topic will highlight a selection of articles around cognitive bias and showcase the broad diversity of research performed across the Psychology field, ranging from Cognitive Science, Personality and Social Psychology and Psychopathology.

We welcome original research and state-of-the-art reviews as well as other article types addressing, but not limited to, the following research areas:
• Impact of cognitive biases on professional decision-making, such as in medicine, law, and management field
• Measurement of individual differences in decision-making research on heuristics and cognitive biases
• The interaction of cognitive biases with other cognitive, psychological and social processes
• Neurophysiological processes and mechanisms underlying cognitive biases
• The nature and relationships between cognitive biases and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety disorders
• Development and evaluation of methods to counteract cognitive biases
• The interaction of cognitive biases and noise in the production of judgment errors

All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.

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