Category: Psychology
When Your Brain Clashes: Understanding Cognitive Dissonance
Welcome back to our exploration of the fascinating world of cognitive biases! We’ve navigated through various mental shortcuts and tendencies that influence our thoughts and…
The Power of Presentation: Understanding the Framing Effect
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve previously explored a range of mental shortcuts, from our “just like me” effect to the “logic trap”…
The Logic Trap: Understanding Belief Bias
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve previously explored how our minds take shortcuts, from the “just like me” effect to the subtle power…
The “Just Like Me” Effect: Understanding Affinity Bias
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve previously explored a range of mental shortcuts, from our “knew-it-all-along” feeling (hindsight bias) to our tendency to…
The Hidden Nudge: Understanding How Priming Bias Influences Your Mind
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve already explored a range of mental shortcuts, from our “knew-it-all-along” feeling (hindsight bias) to our tendency to…
Unmasking Our Hidden Preferences: Understanding Implicit Bias
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases!! We’ve navigated through various ways our minds can take shortcuts, sometimes leading to predictable errors in judgment. Today,…
Judging a Book by Its Cover (and Ignoring the Plot): Understanding the Fundamental Attribution Error
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve explored a range of mental shortcuts that can influence our thinking, from seeking confirming evidence to resisting…
Taking the Credit, Deflecting the Blame: Understanding Self-Serving Bias
Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of cognitive biases, right here in Fremont and beyond! We’ve delved into how we seek confirming evidence, rely on…
“I Knew It All Along!” Understanding Hindsight Bias
Welcome back to our exploration of cognitive biases, right here in Fremont and the wider world! We’ve previously navigated the impact of our beliefs, the…
Stuck in Neutral? Understanding the Power of the Status Quo Bias
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve explored how our beliefs shape what we see, how easily recalled events influence our judgment, how…
Seeing Through Rose-Tinted Glasses: Understanding the Halo Effect
Welcome back to our exploration of cognitive biases! We’ve previously uncovered how our existing beliefs shape our information intake (confirmation bias), how easily recalled events…
When Ignorance Is Bliss: The Surprising Truth of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve journeyed through how our beliefs can filter information (confirmation bias), how easily recalled events can skew…
The Price Is Right? How the Anchoring Effect Influences Your Spending
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! We’ve already explored how confirmation bias can make us seek out agreeable information and how the availability…
Is That Really a Thing? How the Availability Heuristic Tricks Our Minds
Welcome back to our exploration of cognitive biases! In our last post, we delved into the world of confirmation bias and how our desire to…
The Echo Chamber Effect: How Confirmation Bias Shapes Our Reality
Welcome back to our series on cognitive biases! After our overview of the mental shortcuts that can influence our thinking, we’re diving into one of…
The Biased Brain: A Guide to Your Mental Shortcuts
Have you ever wondered why you might believe something even when presented with evidence to the contrary? Or why you assume a brand is high-quality…
Advantages of Disadvantages
In his book “David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell talks about cases where an apparent disadvantage may have helped an individual to actually perform better. He…
The Downside of Bonus
Dan Ariely, the renowned behavioral economist and the author of the widely popular book “Predictably Irrational” has some interesting things to say about the effect…
Effect of Technology: Are We Seeing More and Thinking Less?
An article in Medical News Today asks “Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?” Much of today’s learning and research is relies…
An Interesting Speed Limiting "Nudge"
Here is an interesting “nudge” that I noticed near my local school recently. On one of the bigger streets adjacent to the school, the “School…
