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| 2011 || || {{w|Look-elsewhere effect}} || The {{w|look-elsewhere effect}}, more generally known in statistics as the {{w|problem of multiple comparisons}}, gains some media attention in the context of the search for the {{w|Higgs boson}} at the {{w|Large Hadron Collider}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100123873/an-unconfirmed-sighting-of-the-elusive-higgs-boson/|title=An unconfirmed sighting of the elusive Higgs boson|author=Tom Chivers|date=2011-12-13|publisher=Daily Telegraph}}</ref> || The {{w|look-elsewhere effect}} "occurs when a statistically significant observation is found but, actually, arose by chance and due to the size of the parameter space and sample observed."<ref>{{cite web |title=When a statistically significant observation should be overlooked. |url=https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/look-elsewhere-effect/ |website=thedecisionlab.com |accessdate=7 May 2020}}</ref>
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| 2011 || || {{w|Google effect}} || The phenomenon known as {{w|Google effect}} is first described and named by Betsy Sparrow ([[w:Columbia University|Columbia]]), Jenny Liu ([[w:University of Wisconsin-Madison|Wisconsin]]) and Daniel M. Wegner ([[w:Harvard University|Harvard]]) in their paper.<ref name="Columbia">{{cite web|title=Study Finds That Memory Works Differently in the Age of Google |publisher={{w|Columbia University}}|date=July 14, 2011|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717092619/http://news.columbia.edu/research/2490}}</ref> || The "{{w|Google effect}} is a cognitive bias where a person tends to forget information that can easily be found using internet search".<ref>{{cite web |title=25 Interesting Phenomenons of a Human Mind | Fact Republic |url=https://www.pinterest.com.mx/pin/467178161343951984/ |website=pinterest.com.mx |accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || || {{w|Subadditivity effect}} || In an article in ''{{w|Psychological Bulletin}}'' it is suggested the {{w|subadditivity effect}} can be explained by an {{w|information-theoretic}} generative mechanism that assumes a noisy conversion of objective evidence (observation) into subjective estimates (judgment).<ref name="HilbertPsychBull">{{cite journal|last1=Hilbert|first1=Martin|title=Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases: How noisy information processing can bias human decision making|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=2012|volume=138|issue=2|pages=211–237|doi=10.1037/a0025940|pmid=22122235|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023236/http://www.martinhilbert.net/HilbertPsychBull.pdf}}</ref> || The {{w|subadditivity effect}} is "the tendency to judge probability of the whole to be less than the probabilities of the parts".<ref>{{cite web |title=Today's term from psychology is Subadditivity Effect. |url=https://steemit.com/life/@jevh/today-s-term-from-psychology-is-subadditivity-effect |website=steemit.com |accessdate=7 May 2020}}</ref>
