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- Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX https://psychology.design/ 41 comments
- VCs Also Succumb to Cognitive Biases http://dbasch.posterous.com/vcs-also-succumb-to-cognitive-biases 3 comments
- Learning by observation reduces cognitive bias. Research suggests that observing others’ decision-making can teach people to make better decisions themselves. https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/february/watch-and-learn-learning-by-observation-reduces-cognitive-bias-research-suggests 5 comments science
- People with beliefs in conspiracy theories have a cognitive bias known as the jumping to conclusion (JTC) bias, the tendency to perform hasty decisions based on little evidence, and a preference for an intuitive general thinking style, as opposed to analytical thinking. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.568942/full 1190 comments science
- People who believe in conspiracy theories has a cognitive bias known as the jumping to conclusion (JTC) bias, the tendency to perform hasty decisions based on little evidence, and a preference for an intuitive general thinking style, as opposed to analytical thinking. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.568942/full 2 comments science
- Researchers find that the brain overvalues the ending of experience rather than accurately summarizing the value of the total experience — a cognitive bias that worsens decision-making. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/brain-can-overvalue-a-happy-ending-study 10 comments science
- The science of User Experience. How to use cognitive biases in the development of modern software products https://medium.com/@alexanyanwolf/the-science-of-user-experience-b4ae1314712c 4 comments cogsci
- 8 Cognitive Biases in Software Development https://thevaluable.dev/cognitive-bias-software-development/ 22 comments coding
- 50 Common Cognitive Biases and Simple Explanations https://visual.ly/community/infographics/other/50-common-cognitive-biases 7 comments cogsci
- Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs. Findings suggests that people with higher cognitive ability may be more likely to question their personal biases and their news sources, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/fake-news-can-lead-to-false-memories.html?aps_source=homepage&aps_medium=featuredtile&aps_campaign=internal 32 comments science
- The false-consensus effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the degree to which their beliefs and behaviors are shared by others. This phenomenon could explain why some people with extreme opinions wrongly assume that a large portion of the population agrees with them. https://effectiviology.com/false-consensus/ 10 comments cogsci
- “My-side bias” makes it difficult for us to see the logic in arguments we disagree with, finds a new study in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology (n=387). The results provide a striking demonstration of how our powers of reasoning are corrupted by our prior attitudes. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/10/09/my-side-bias-makes-it-difficult-for-us-to-see-the-logic-in-arguments-we-disagree-with/ 1284 comments science
- The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain: Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/cognitive-bias/565775/ 11 comments cogsci
- Cognitive Biases in Apartment Hunting http://www.residualthoughts.com/2018/06/06/cognitive-biases-in-apartment-hunting/ 7 comments cogsci
- Study: Conspiracy theories could be the result of how humans handle probabilities. The study, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, suggests conspiratorial thinking is the consequence of a general cognitive bias associated with low probabilities. http://www.psypost.org/2018/05/study-conspiracy-theories-result-humans-handle-probabilities-51272 18 comments science
- Introduction to Cognitive Biases and Rationality https://medium.com/mindlevelup/wtf-is-rationality-f7688c64416f 3 comments cogsci
- Book recommendations for cognitive biases that aid in marketing? https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/6vrtx5/book_recommendations_for_cognitive_biases_that/ 11 comments marketing
- Study of 68 women over two menstrual cycles finds no consistent association between hormone levels and cognitive functioning (working memory, attention, cognitive bias) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/menstruation-does-not-affect-brain-thought-intelligence-women-a7821641.html 10 comments science
- The Cognitive Bias President Trump Understands Better Than You https://www.wired.com/2017/02/cognitive-bias-president-trump-understands-better/ 9 comments politics
- Good articles on cognitive biases to keep in mind when building products https://medium.com/startup-grind/cognitive-bias-ad5f9fe7f59b#.6j4hbsn8y 4 comments startups
- 25 Cognitive biases | Inconsistency Avoidance tendency | Understand logical fallacies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRVUVZYtAQ 6 comments cogsci
- Steer: On cognitive bias, and avoiding harmful narratives in hockey http://bsndenver.com/cognitive-bias-harmful-narratives-hockey-nov-25/ 4 comments hockey
- The Impact of Cognitive Biases on our Evaluation of Play by @MimicoHero http://ownthepuck.com/2015/08/10/the-impact-of-cognitive-biases-on-our-evaluation-of-play/ 5 comments hockey
- Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering http://www.jonathanklein.net/2013/06/cognitive-biases-in-software-engineering.html 13 comments programming
- Remitted depression patients display significant negative memory bias as well as persistent negative cognitive beliefs even after full recovery http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0005791613000712 9 comments science
- How to Think -- a primer on Cognitive Biases http://rmorabia.com/think 15 comments cogsci
- These 6 cognitive biases prevent you from working effectively http://blog.sandglaz.com/6-cognitive-biases-that-can-hurt-your-work/ 3 comments productivity
- Cyclists are safe and courteous, and your disdain for them is grounded in cognitive bias http://boingboing.net/2012/09/26/cyclists-are-safe-and-courteou.html 3 comments bicycling
- A list of 47 cognitive biases. Like it says before the Delphic Oracle, "Know Yourself" http://www.businessinsider.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-people-2010-11?op=1/ 29 comments cogsci
- Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker. Very interesting article http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html 1486 comments science
- TIL that the NASA quit using PowerPoint for technical reports after the Columbia accident because the distinctive cognitive style of PP reinforced the hierachical filtering and biases of the NASA bureaucracy http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yb&topic_id=1&topic=ask+e.t. 2 comments reddit.com
- We have confirmation bias; we pick out evidence that supports our views. We are cognitive misers; we try to think as little as possible. We are herd thinkers and conform our perceptions to fit in with the group. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage 5 comments politics
- Feeling can't make a belief true (except perhaps a belief about one's own feeling). Suggesting that one should hold one's beliefs with more feeling is like saying one should increase one's level of cognitive bias. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/aug/06/belief-about-truth-not-feelings 29 comments philosophy
- Palin-Problem?: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dunning%E2%80%93kruger_effect 19 comments politics
- Eleven Cognitive Biases that Help Sustain the Anti-male Double Standard in Society http://www.ifeminists.net/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.110 6 comments reddit.com
- Think you're unbiased? Wiki list of cognitive biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_cognitive_biases 2 comments science
- Wikipedia List of cognitive biases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_cognitive_biases 2 comments reddit.com
- The confirmation bias causes people to search for information that confirms their beliefs and to ignore information that contradicts them. This prevalent cognitive bias could explain why people continue to believe in pseudoscientific myths, long those myths have been refuted. https://effectiviology.com/confirmation-bias/ 4 comments cogsci
- The Benefits Of Being Bilingual -- "Forcing people to rely on a second language systematically reduced human biases, allowing the subjects to escape from the usual blind spots of cognition." http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/the-benefits-of-being-bilingual/ 16 comments science
- The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias. https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-health-nfl-sports-205b304c0c3724532d74fc54e58b4d1d?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=ap 20 comments nfl