#### Law of the instrument --- **Law of the instrument** The law of the instrument, law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer, or golden hammer is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, > "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." The concept is attributed both to Maslow and to Abraham Kaplan, although the hammer and nail line may not be original to either of them.Wikipedia --- Tags: [[Psychology]] - [[Cognitive Bias]] Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument References: - [[Beginners lacking experience to confidently and correctly judge a situation fall back on the framework of values they were taught]]