Understanding Cognitive Biases

10h 51m 35s
English
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Course description

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.

As you read this sentence, your brain has just processed about 20 million bits of information. And yet, that astonishing number just isn’t enough to get you through your day. Consequently, your brain takes some shortcuts, including cognitive biases—when the brain fills in gaps of solid, reliable information with a lot of guesswork for efficiency’s sake. In Understanding Cognitive Biases, Dr. Alexander B. Swan uses examples from psychology experiments, history, politics, movies, TV, comics, social media, and more to illustrate dozens of cognitive biases that affect us all and shows you how to combat them for a clearer, more accurate view of the world.

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#Lesson TitleDurationAccess
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1 Why we're blind to our own biases Demo
18:26
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2 Things we want to be true Confirmation bias
30:12
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3 We see people in and behind everything
30:03
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4 We love it because we built it
22:31
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5 Why we think differently in groups
28:17
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6 Learn better with cognitive biases
26:32
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7 Expectations change results Observer bias
26:27
8
8 BIas boot camp for better decisions
29:57
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9 We think other's behaviors are their fault
30:20
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10 How memory is biased toward misinformation
26:33
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11 How fast thinking leads to a Great fall
26:16
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12 I knew it all along Hindsight Bias
27:22
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13 Even random outcomes lead to bias
29:00
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14 How con artists exploit our biases
24:01
15
15 Stereotypes See the person, not the group
27:59
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16 Biases from knowing too much or too little
27:09
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17 Is that memory mine or someone else's
27:05
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18 I believe, therefore I think Belief bias
30:34
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19 Why emotional peaks and endings matter
25:24
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20 We lie to be socially desirable
27:05
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21 Why emotional gaps cause trouble
29:37
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22 Only survivors tell the story
29:05
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23 Reactance You can't watch this lecture!
25:08
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24 Statu quo The more things change
26:32

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