Ritholtz organizes “How Not to Invest” into four clear and compelling sections: Bad Ideas, Bad Numbers, Bad Behavior, and ...

Behavioral scientists have been trying to uncover the patterns that humans follow when making decisions for decades. The ...

Barre’s research has identified seven specific cognitive biases affecting cyber security governance: optimism bias, pessimism ...

Qiao, N. and Ye, S. (2025) Research on the Path of Digital Hoarding Behavior among Digital Natives Based on the I-PACE Model in China. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 15, 1793-1816. doi: ...

Humans are prone to cognitive bias, which can affect health care diagnoses (Image credit: ArtemisDiana / Getty Images) By Devika Rao, The Week US published 24 February 2025 ...

To stop cognitive bias, one must be aware of the bias. Analyzing your decision-making history, why you chose one decision over another, and how that might relate to a bias.

They include situational attribution training, empathy training, exposure control (limiting exposure to information that may bias judgment), mindfulness training, reducing cognitive load, self ...

Similarly, the probability of experiencing a shark attack is minuscule, at one in 3.7 million, while the chance of developing coronary artery disease (CAD) in adults over 20 is far greater, at one ...

My kids are kids at the end of the day. So the nostalgia bias and when I unpack how that can get in our way, another bias that I talk about in the first chapter is the anchoring bias. And the ...

Despite all the attention in recent years on reducing cognitive bias, most evidence suggests that there’s little we can do to improve our professional and personal decision making.

Ultimately, our brains are lazy and it takes a lot of cognitive effort to change the script and these shortcuts that we have already built up.