Cognitive Biases in Requirements Engineering: Towards Understanding Their Relevance from a Communication Perspective
Nayat Astaiza Soriano, Eric Knauss · 2025
Cognitive biases are often described as "deviations" or "errors" in rationality, interfering with problem-solving and decision-making. In one of the foundational articles by Tversky and Kahneman cognitive biases are defined as: "heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations" [1] . In medical [2] , managerial [3] , and Software Engineering (SE) [4] areas, for instance, the impact of such "heuristics or errors" is assessed in the literature, often focused on presenting mitigation or "debiasing" strategies.