Understanding Cognitive Biases

<p>Understand how your brain’s efficiency shortcuts can leave you with a biased view of the world and learn how to combat these tendencies in your everyday life.</p>

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• 01: Why We’re Blind to Our Own Biases
• 02: Things We Want to Be True: Confirmation Bias
• 03: We See People In and Behind Everything
• 04: We Love It Because We Built It
• 05: Why We Think Differently in Groups
• 06: Learn Better with Cognitive Biases
• 07: Expectations Change Results: Observer Bias
• 08: Bias Boot Camp for Better Decisions
• 09: We Think Others’ Behaviors Are Their Fault
• 10: How Memory Is Biased toward Misinformation
• 11: How Fast Thinking Leads to a Great Fall
• 12: I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias
• 13: Even Random Outcomes Lead to Bias
• 14: How Con Artists Exploit Our Biases
• 15: Stereotypes: See the Person, Not the Group
• 16: Biases from Knowing Too Much or Too Little
• 17: Is That Memory Mine or Someone Else’s?
• 18: I Believe, Therefore I Think: Belief Bias
• 19: Why Emotional Peaks and Endings Matter
• 20: We Lie to Be Socially Desirable
• 21: Why Emotional Gaps Cause Trouble
• 22: Only Survivors Tell the Story
• 23: Reactance: You Can’t Watch This Lecture!
• 24: Status Quo: The More Things Change …