perusing this exhaustive list of cognitive biases and it really is amazing that humans every have anything approaching a rational thought. for whatever reason, reading about research on confirmation bias has always been a favorite pastime. throw in cognitive dissonance, and motivated reasoning and you’ve got yourself a whole mess of irrationality.
[...] to the cognitive basis for irrationality ( or maybe this is all just a big case of confirmaton bias? ), scientists say we just all [...]
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[...] never tire of reading about the cognitive basis for irrationality with one of my favorite cognitive biases being the overconfidence effect where, generally speaking, [...]
Posted by snowdeal.org - you’re probably overconfident about the 50% of the facts you know which are actually wrong. on 26 December 2012 @ 9am
[...] favorite articles or books about this or that fitness program so i can be sure to pick things that confirm my bias that everything i know is [...]
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[...] unsurprising research ( given the the cognitive basis for irrationality ) formalizes the concept of the “filter bubble” with a mathematical model of biased [...]
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