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The Decision Education Podcast
Episode 025: Thinking 101 with Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn
Aug 30, 2023
Dr. Woo-kyoung Ahn, psychology professor at Yale and author of Thinking 101, shares insights on thinking errors and practical tools to improve decision making. Topics include job interview biases, procrastination, and avoiding confirmation bias at restaurants. They also discuss framing effects on depression studies, loss aversion in sales, and the importance of nurturing dispositions for better decision making.
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- Confirmation bias hinders decision making and perpetuates narrow thinking, requiring openness to different viewpoints and intellectual humility to overcome.
- The fluency effect and planning fallacy biases can lead to poor decision making by underestimating time and effort required, recognizing these biases can help people make more realistic plans.
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Overcoming Confirmation Bias: The Challenges and Risks
Confirmation bias is a common cognitive bias that everyone experiences, making it difficult to overcome. People tend to seek out information that confirms their existing beliefs, making them resistant to new perspectives or contradictory evidence. This bias can hinder decision making and perpetuate narrow thinking. Overcoming confirmation bias requires openness to different viewpoints and a willingness to challenge one's own beliefs. It is important to recognize that confirmation bias affects everyone, and developing intellectual humility can help mitigate its effects.
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