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Understanding Cognitive Biases

Series: Understanding Cognitive Biases
3.9
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Episodes
24
Rating
TVPG
Year
2023
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

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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.

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Episodes

1. Why We're Blind to Our Own Biases

18m

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Discover why it's so difficult for us to find a blind spot in our own reasoning.

2. Things We Want to Be True: Confirmation Bias

30m

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Explore one of the most well-known and pervasive cognitive biases.

3. We See People In and Behind Everything

30m

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Learn about biases you have experienced since infancy.

4. We Love It Because We Built It

23m

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Consider our tendency to place a high value on things we've built ourselves.

5. Why We Think Differently in Groups

28m

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Explore the new set of biases that can develop when individuals must make decisions in a group.

6. Learn Better with Cognitive Biases

27m

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Discover how to use three particular cognitive biases to your own advantage.

7. Expectations Change Results: Observer Bias

26m

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See how observer bias can affect the results of activities from experiments to teaching.

8. Bias Boot Camp for Better Decisions

30m

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Discover the cognitive bias that can help you negotiate for that next car purchase.

9. We Think Others' Behaviors Are Their Fault

30m

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Was it really your fault that your car scraped the light pole in the parking lot?

10. How Memory Is Biased toward Misinformation

27m

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Learn how the misinformation effect has affected our criminal justice processes.

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