15 Cognitive Biases You Must Know in 7 Minutes Each: Mastering Decision-Making and Critical Thinking in Quick, Digestible Lessons
About this ebook
This book breaks down 15 essential cognitive biases into digestible chapters, each designed to be read in just seven minutes. Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply curious about psychology, you'll find that each chapter is packed with insights that can help you recognize and navigate these biases in your daily life.
What's Inside?
- The Anchoring Effect: Discover how the first piece of information can heavily influence our decisions.
- Confirmation Bias: Learn why we tend to favor information that supports our existing beliefs.
- Availability Heuristic: Understand how our judgments are influenced by what readily comes to mind.
- Hindsight Bias: Explore the phenomenon of believing we could have predicted events after they happen.
- Self-Serving Bias: Uncover the reasons we attribute our successes to internal factors and failures to external ones.
- Dunning-Kruger Effect: Recognize the tendency for people with low ability to overestimate their skills.
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Examine why we continue investing in a losing proposition.
- Framing Effect: See how the way information is presented can influence our choices.
- Bandwagon Effect: Investigate the social dynamics that lead us to adopt the beliefs of the majority.
- Optimism Bias: Learn about our tendency to believe that we are less likely to experience negative events.
- Negativity Bias: Discover why we often pay more attention to negative experiences than positive ones.
- Gambler's Fallacy: Understand the misconception that past random events can influence future outcomes.
- Overconfidence Effect: Learn about the disparity between our subjective confidence and actual performance.
- Loss Aversion: Explore our tendency to prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains.
- Status Quo Bias: Examine our preference for the current state of affairs and resistance to change.
Read this book and equip yourself with the knowledge to make more informed decisions, improve your critical thinking, and better understand the subtle influences that shape your behavior and opinions. Don't let cognitive biases guide your life—take control with clarity and insight in just 7 minutes per bias!
