Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ...

When making decisions and judgments, humans can fall into common "traps," known as cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is ...

At birth, our minds are like blank sponges ready to absorb new information. Then, as we grow up, we may start to let some of what we’ve learned mess with how we take on new information. This is known ...

Sports talent scouts' decisions are influenced by various common cognitive biases that can affect their work and undermine team success, a paper ...

In 2020, I wrote an article about the influence of cognitive biases on content marketers' professional success. There was a paradox: While marketers knew about all the unconscious errors in mental ...

We all have cognitive biases — ways in which our thinking can be flawed, skewed, or driven by emotion rather than logic. Our cognitive biases serve a purpose: They develop out of a need to sort ...

Curious about the halo effect and social perception? In this video, we break down what the halo effect is and how it impacts our daily interactions. Tune in for some brainy dose of self-help knowledge ...

When you come across articles about human decision-making, whether in the popular press or scientific literature, the probability is high that the expression "cognitive bias" is likely to be used. In ...

View the high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. The human brain is capable of incredible things, but it’s also extremely flawed at times. Science has shown that we tend to make ...

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that can cause us to make faulty decisions. As much as we would like to believe our decisions to be logical and ...