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I'm struck by the similarity between fallacies and cognitive biases. For example, there's a bandwagon bias and a bandwagon fallacy.
Can anyone tell me if anyone has created a chart or system that matches fallacies with their most closely related counterparts among cognitive biases? In other words, if someone reads a statement and declares, "Aha, a red herring fallacy!" they might next determine that the red herring fallacy exploits a particular cognitive bias.
Can anyone tell me if anyone has created a chart or system that matches fallacies with their most closely related counterparts among cognitive biases?
It all depends: when you say chart do you mean something that you can pin up on your wall? Or would a book suffice? If so, then there's a few books that may be of relevance.
For a useful reference that catalogues fallacies and biases, I would recommend the book:
Unfortunately, it's not particularly useful in characterising the cognitive biases and heuristics that underpin these fallacies. Nevertheless, here is the entry for the bandwagon effect, also known as argumentum ad numeram:
And of the Red Herring fallacy (Ignoratio elenchi):
An alternative reference that I think is more akin to what you're after is this reference:
Considerably more detail is provided for each entry. The shortcoming here, however, is that it only examines about 20 or so fallacies and biases.
