cognitive bias
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Book reviews and releases
Bias be gone! Can our unconscious prejudices be overcome?
The strengths and limitations of the new book, The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds.
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Brain power
High conviction levels prevent us from updating our beliefs
A new study explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms that contribute to confirmation bias.
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2019’s top 100 journal articles
The mental trick that makes it seem like subsequent generations are in decline [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]
Two mechanisms contribute to humanity’s perennial tendency to denigrate kids. Cognitive biases such as these need to be a consideration…
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Brain power
What is our motivation when gathering information?
We tend to stop hunting for evidence the moment that data supports the conclusion we wished it to support when…
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Brain power
Is our brain able to think rationally, even when we don’t?
A recent study looked at the extent to which prior knowledge could be modified if new or conflicting evidence emerged,…
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Analysis & counterpoints
A rational person’s 1-minute guide to why rational thinking often fails to persuade people [Thinking is hard series]
It becomes rational to revisit rationality as a method of persuasion, because it fails to produce results.
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Analysis & counterpoints
Great zinger! [Thinking is hard series]
Do zingers move an argument towards resolution?
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Analysis & counterpoints
Simplified cognitive bias cheat sheet [Thinking is hard series]
The simplified cognitive bias cheat sheet identifies four "condundrums" that lead to all biases.
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Analysis & counterpoints
Just how rational is our thinking? Time for a reality check… [Thinking is hard series]
The way our brains have evolved to deal with problems that humans face means that in reality we have a…
