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<p>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.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Why We’re Blind to Our Own Biases
  • 02: Things We Want to Be True: Confirmation Bias
  • 03: We See People In and Behind Everything
  • 04: We Love It Because We Built It
  • 05: Why We Think Differently in Groups
  • 06: Learn Better with Cognitive Biases
  • 07: Expectations Change Results: Observer Bias
  • 08: Bias Boot Camp for Better Decisions
  • 09: 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 …
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Alexander B. Swan

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