cognitive bias
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Brain power
Friday essay: how to have brave conversations in an age of loud moral certainty
Brave conversation is the refusal to let our shared reality be dictated by the loudest certainties and the most rigid…
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Artificial intelligence
AI is changing the Dunning-Kruger Effect, with higher AI literacy correlating with overestimation of competence
Research findings reinforce the need for strategies that foster cognitive resilience and critical engagement with AI.
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Book reviews and releases
Bias be gone! Can our unconscious prejudices be overcome?
The strengths and limitations of the new book, The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds.
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Brain power
High conviction levels prevent us from updating our beliefs
A new study explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms that contribute to confirmation bias.
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2019’s top 100 journal articles
The mental trick that makes it seem like subsequent generations are in decline [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]
Two mechanisms contribute to humanity’s perennial tendency to denigrate kids. Cognitive biases such as these need to be a consideration…
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Brain power
What is our motivation when gathering information?
We tend to stop hunting for evidence the moment that data supports the conclusion we wished it to support when…
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Brain power
Is our brain able to think rationally, even when we don’t?
A recent study looked at the extent to which prior knowledge could be modified if new or conflicting evidence emerged,…
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Analysis & counterpoints
A rational person’s 1-minute guide to why rational thinking often fails to persuade people [Thinking is hard series]
It becomes rational to revisit rationality as a method of persuasion, because it fails to produce results.
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Analysis & counterpoints
Great zinger! [Thinking is hard series]
Do zingers move an argument towards resolution?
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Analysis & counterpoints
Simplified cognitive bias cheat sheet [Thinking is hard series]
The simplified cognitive bias cheat sheet identifies four "condundrums" that lead to all biases.
