Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ...

The self-serving bias is defined as people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that ...

Imagine you decide to walk to the park. As you head out the front door, you take a left and walk for about a block. At that point, you realize it would’ve been a faster journey if you would’ve taken a ...

When you come across articles about human decision-making, whether in the popular press or scientific literature, the probability is high that the expression "cognitive bias" is likely to be used. In ...

The process of improving the synchronization between visual perception and motor skills is called visuomotor learning. It ...

View the full episode transcript. Teachers are tasked with making countless decisions every day, and some of those decisions happen quickly because they are rooted in bias. While bias is everywhere, ...

Identity is ubiquitous and people rarely consider the impact it has on how information is processed. Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training is on the rise globally, and this raises awareness ...

As people age, they display a bias in recognizing emotions as positive—to the point of improperly labeling neutral or negative emotions as positive. Some researchers theorize this bias is an adaptive ...

Amanda Montell has come on Marketplace a few times about the cult of work. We talked about why culty workplaces, like Neiman Marcus in the ‘80s, are so effective. We’ve also talked about the downsides ...

Anchoring bias is a form of cognitive bias where people tend to place extra importance on the first piece of information they get on a topic, regardless of the accuracy of that data point. In ...