Understanding Cognitive Biases 1 Why We're Blind to Our Own Biases
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Understanding Cognitive Biases
"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."
At each meeting, we watch / listen to a lecture together and then discuss it together.
Typically, we cover one lecture per week. See the event’s title for what lecture is for that event.
Here is the full list of lectures for the course:
1 Why We're Blind to Our Own Biases
2 Things We Want to Be True: Confirmation Bias
3 We See People In and Behind Everything
4 We Love It Because We Built It
5 Why We Think Differently in Groups
6 Learn Better with Cognitive Biases
7 Expectations Change Results: Observer Bias
8 Bias Boot Camp for Better Decisions
9 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 …