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Video and Text Based
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Getting Started
What is a Cognitive Bias?
- What is a Cognitive Bias?
- "Biased" does NOT mean "Prejudiced" or "Bigoted"
- An Example: The Gambler's Fallacy
- The Most Important Discovery of Modern Psychology
Cognitive Biases and Their Importance for Critical Thinking
- A Central Aim of Critical Thinking
- "Mindware": Tools for Smart Thinking
Why Are So Many Industries Offering Cognitive Bias Training To Their Employees?
- Why is Everyone Talking About Cognitive Biases?
- Reason 1: Avoiding Disasters
- Reason 2: Improving Performance
- Reason 3: Promoting Social Justice
- All of This is Just APPLIED CRITICAL THINKING
A Gentle Introduction to Cognitive Biases
- There Are Hundreds of Cognitive Biases
- We'll Look at FOUR in Detail
(1) Confirmation Bias
- What is Confirmation Bias?
- Biased Memory and the Lunar Effect
- Biased Search for Information (I): Interviews and Framing Effects
- Biased Search for Information (II): How Questions Can Manipulate Memory
- Biased Interpretation of Information: Mulder, Scully and Giant Alien Spiders
(2) Pattern Seeking
- We're Very Good at Seeing Patterns ... Maybe Too Good
- We See Faces Everywhere: Why?
- Cognitive Biases and Adaptive Shortcuts
- Stairway to Heaven, Britney Spears, and Backmasking
- Looking for Meaning in German Carpet Bombing Patterns
(3) The Anchoring Effect
- What is the Anchoring Effect?
- How Much is This Jacket Really Worth?
- The Basic Shortcut: "Anchor and Adjust"
- Irrelevant Anchors: Judges Literally Roll Dice on Damages
- How to Use Anchoring to Manipulate Public Opinion
(4) Hindsight Bias
- What Is Hindsight Bias?
- How Hindsight Bias is Demonstrated
- Hindsight Bias, 9-11 and Earthquake Prediction
Introduction to Debiasing Strategies
- Debiasing Strategies: Overview
- What is Debiasing?
- Debiasing the Decision-Maker
- Debiasing the Environment
Why Businesses Often Resist Debiasing
- Five Reasons Why Businesses May Resist Debiasing
- We Have a BLIND SPOT When It Comes to Our Own Biases
Debiasing Strategies that Work
- The General Problem: Narrow Thinking
- (1) Consider the Opposite
- (2) Make People Accountable
- (3) PREMORTEM Analysis
- (4) The Value of Checklists
- (5-1) The Benefits and Risks of Group Decision-Making
- (5-2) The Debiasing Effects of Diversity
- (5-3) How to Get the Most Out of Brainstorming
Wrapping Up
- What's Next?
- Bonus Lecture: Other Courses I Teach and Services I Offer
Instructors
Mr Kevin deLaplante
Philosopher
Freelancer
Ph.D