A cognitive bias refers to the way humans may assume or infer things using rules of thumb or innate tendencies, but which may give rise to false inferences or behavours. The are many differet kinds of cognitive bais, for example, automation bias where one assumes, without sufficient checking, that machine answers are true.
Used in Chap. 14: page 180
Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 7: page 80