<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>
Overview
Syllabus
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- 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 …
Taught by
Alexander B. Swan
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