How your Brain Tricks you: Cognitive Biases of Perception
Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick
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Understanding Cognitive Biases
This chapter explores various cognitive biases such as negativity bias, recency bias, and conformity, and their significant effects on human perception and decision-making. The speakers emphasize the importance of recognizing these biases to make informed choices rather than relying on immediate or skewed perceptions. Various effects, including the clustering illusion, mere exposure effect, and illusion of control, are discussed to illustrate how these cognitive distortions influence individual behavior and beliefs.
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