Car maintenance: A car not starting might be due to a dead battery rather than a major mechanical problem.

Evaluating products: Recognizing the halo effect can help you make more objective purchasing decisions, without being swayed by brand reputation.

Purchasing decisions: Awareness of confirmation bias can help you make more objective choices when comparing products and services.

Purchasing decisions: Understanding the framing effect can help you evaluate products and services more objectively, regardless of how they are presented.

Purchasing decisions: Recognizing loss aversion can help you avoid overvaluing items you own, leading to more objective evaluations of whether to replace or upgrade possessions.

Purchasing decisions: Recognizing the sunk cost fallacy can help you avoid buying unnecessary items or upgrades just because you've already spent money on related products or services.

Purchasing decisions: Understanding the decoy effect can help you make more informed choices when comparing products or services by focusing on the features that truly matter to you.

Purchasing Decisions: Realizing that buying new items (like clothes or gadgets) brings temporary joy can help you prioritize experiences or investments that offer long-lasting satisfaction, like travel or learning.

Purchasing decisions: Knowing the correlation-causation fallacy can help you make more informed choices when buying products or services, considering multiple factors that may contribute to observed correlations.

Purchasing decisions: Recognizing clustering bias can help you make more informed choices when buying products or services, without assuming that a series of positive or negative reviews indicates a pattern.