Salience Bias

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconobvious things matter more
Executive Parlanceattention capture
Scholarly Discourseperceptual weighting
Babel ZenithSalience Bias
Origin: Cognitive Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

Overweighting things that stand out.

In the Boardroom

Focusing on loud problems while ignoring quiet important ones.

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