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ostrich effect

attempt made by investors to avoid negative financial information
Thing Idiom Q2598759

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
idiom, cognitive bias[2]
Part of
psychological terminology[4]
Different from
Ostrich "head in the sand" myth[6]
Named after
Ostrich "head in the sand" myth[3]
Partially coincident with
ostrich policy[5]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Jing'an Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China (December 2015) - 37.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
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Quora topic ID
Ostrich-Effect

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
idiom, cognitive bias
Partially coincident with 1
ostrich policy
← Partially coincident with 1
ostrich policy
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Summary

ostrich effect is an idiom[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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