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5 Ways Your Trusted Memory Is Tricking You

Memory is not as reliable as we think; up to 50% can be inaccurate due to selective recall.

How overconfidence can sabotage your career and your company

Overconfidence significantly contributes to the high failure rate of acquisitions and strategic misjudgments in business.

Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making

The partnership between Kahneman and Tversky revolutionized behavioral economics by highlighting cognitive biases in decision-making processes.

What is Status Quo Bias, and How Does it Affect you

Status quo bias leads to resistance to change, impacting decision-making and personal growth.

Why people always think they're right, according to science

People often believe they have enough information to make decisions, despite only having part of the facts.

Five Ways to Mistake-Proof Your Thinking

Understanding cognitive biases can help leaders make better decisions and avoid mistakes.
Recognizing the inherent limitations in our thinking improves our decision-making processes.

5 Ways Your Trusted Memory Is Tricking You

Memory is not as reliable as we think; up to 50% can be inaccurate due to selective recall.

How overconfidence can sabotage your career and your company

Overconfidence significantly contributes to the high failure rate of acquisitions and strategic misjudgments in business.

Athlete vs. grandmaster: The psychology of decision-making

The partnership between Kahneman and Tversky revolutionized behavioral economics by highlighting cognitive biases in decision-making processes.

What is Status Quo Bias, and How Does it Affect you

Status quo bias leads to resistance to change, impacting decision-making and personal growth.

Why people always think they're right, according to science

People often believe they have enough information to make decisions, despite only having part of the facts.

Five Ways to Mistake-Proof Your Thinking

Understanding cognitive biases can help leaders make better decisions and avoid mistakes.
Recognizing the inherent limitations in our thinking improves our decision-making processes.
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10 Rules for Post-Election Conversations

Effective communication across political divides is possible by understanding and countering cognitive biases.

Goodbye, Git-Centricity: Getting to Green in an AI-Powered World - DevOps.com

The streetlight effect in software development leads teams to focus on internal code changes, neglecting external dependencies and their impact.

At the Grocery Store, Blinded by the Light of the Health Halo'

The health halo effect leads consumers to misjudge the overall healthiness of food products based on single positive marketing claims.

A World in Decline? Things Were Better in the Good Old Days

Declinism reflects a belief that the past was better, often fueled by nostalgia and negative perceptions of current events.

How do you spot a liar? Scientists say it's trickier than you might think

Essential advancements in lie detection technology stem from historical perspectives, highlighting biases and the importance of comprehensive validation.

How to Snatch A Successful Startup: Don't Hunt New Ideas | HackerNoon

Startup building has evolved into a replicable science rather than a mere entrepreneurial dream.
Success depends more on timing and market conditions than just creative ideas.

Outside the Forensic Box: A Tale of Lies and Lemmings

Cognitive misinterpretations and false beliefs distort evidence in court and beyond, impacting investigations significantly.

How will Aaron Judge's 2024 season be remembered?

Aaron Judge's 2024 season statistics are strong, but perceptions shaped by memorable records, like 62 home runs in 2022, may define his legacy.
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Leveraging the recency effect in UI design - LogRocket Blog

The recency effect enhances memorability and impacts both marketing strategies and UX design principles.

The availability heuristic

The availability heuristic can skew UX design decisions by prioritizing recent feedback over a comprehensive analysis of all user insights.

Leveraging the recency effect in UI design - LogRocket Blog

The recency effect enhances memorability and impacts both marketing strategies and UX design principles.

The availability heuristic

The availability heuristic can skew UX design decisions by prioritizing recent feedback over a comprehensive analysis of all user insights.
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The Power of Unlearning

Unlearning outdated beliefs is essential for adapting to rapid changes in technology and society.

Cartoon: Tall Tales and Short Thinking

Social media profits from promoting negativity and disinformation, which leads to societal gullibility.

Did you solve it? The poker puzzle that has everyone fooled

The circumference of a pint glass is often unintuitively longer than the height.
Understanding poker hand rankings is crucial to determining the winning hand.
#psychology

Coincidence or Fate? It Depends on Your Mood

Seeing connections in random events can reflect creativity and a way to cope with stress, particularly influenced by one's mood.

How the False Consensus Effect Warps Our Online Reality

The false consensus effect leads individuals to overestimate the commonality of their views, especially on social media.

Friday the 13th: Why are we so superstitious?

Superstitions like mismatched socks can create perceived good luck, illustrating how irrational beliefs form in our minds.

Optimism Bias In Psychology: Is Over Optimism Good For Wellbeing?

Excessive optimism can lead to unrealistic expectations and poor decision making, known as optimism bias.

Declinism Bias: What You Need to Know About This Cognitive Bias

Declinism causes individuals to romanticize the past while viewing the present and future negatively, impacting mental well-being.

Coincidence or Fate? It Depends on Your Mood

Seeing connections in random events can reflect creativity and a way to cope with stress, particularly influenced by one's mood.

How the False Consensus Effect Warps Our Online Reality

The false consensus effect leads individuals to overestimate the commonality of their views, especially on social media.

Friday the 13th: Why are we so superstitious?

Superstitions like mismatched socks can create perceived good luck, illustrating how irrational beliefs form in our minds.

Optimism Bias In Psychology: Is Over Optimism Good For Wellbeing?

Excessive optimism can lead to unrealistic expectations and poor decision making, known as optimism bias.

Declinism Bias: What You Need to Know About This Cognitive Bias

Declinism causes individuals to romanticize the past while viewing the present and future negatively, impacting mental well-being.
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How to step out of your inner monologue and understand the world better

Human beings are often divided by polarizing viewpoints due to our brain's categorization of people, leading to reduced empathy and dehumanization.
#critical-thinking

Crime: Perception & Reality

Despite a decline in crime rates since the 1990s, most Americans believe crime is increasing due to cognitive biases shaped by media exposure.

Master Thinkers: 5 Habits That They Have | HackerNoon

Critical thinking is an essential yet underutilized skill that contributes to personal and professional success.

Crime: Perception & Reality

Despite a decline in crime rates since the 1990s, most Americans believe crime is increasing due to cognitive biases shaped by media exposure.

Master Thinkers: 5 Habits That They Have | HackerNoon

Critical thinking is an essential yet underutilized skill that contributes to personal and professional success.
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3 Thinking Errors That Make Life Harder Than Necessary

Many hardships in life stem from self-inflicted thinking errors that limit success and happiness.
Thinking errors, including linear thought patterns, can restrict one's opportunities for greater achievements.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows that People Don't Know What They Don't Know

The Dunning-Kruger effect explains overestimation of knowledge in those with limited expertise.
The effect has become a popular meme and is invoked in various discussions and debates.

Signs Of Pessimism, How Is It Different From Optimism, And How To Respond

Pessimism is a personality trait with a negative outlook towards life.
Pessimism bias is a cognitive bias where individuals overemphasize negative outcomes.
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