Daniel Kahneman&#x27;s book &quot;Thinking Fast and Slow&quot; is a great overview of the field of cognitive bias. For a more academic treatment of his research, check out &quot;Heuristics and Biases&quot;. The part of his work most relevant to project estimation can be found in the &quot;planning fallacy&quot; section. Aside from Kahneman, there are numerous papers on software estimation, many of which note these consistent biases (for example Jørgensen, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;fd87&#x2F;d248dd55f59d8d93742fb3a7edc2d5bec2e1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;fd87&#x2F;d248dd55f59d8d93742fb3...</a>).