Mental models/Familiarity Bias
Memory & Recognition

Familiarity Bias

The tendency to develop a preference for things simply because they are familiar, independent of any objective quality assessment.

In plain language

People prefer things they've seen before, even without a conscious reason. Repetition breeds preference.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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