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