This is the second post in a series on cognitive biases. A cognitive bias is a mental shortcut or heuristic intended to spare us time, effort, or discomfort—often while reinforcing our self ...

Association bias can be even more primitive than that, harking back to a time when magical thinking dominated the human mind.

Every choice we make, from picking peanut butter to forming political opinions, is influenced by unseen cognitive biases.

A cognitive bias? Not quite. It's a good example of how in pop psychology people conflate heuristics with cognitive bias and how that trickles down to marketing. The availability heuristic is ...

A new study finds that ChatGPT, while excellent at logic and math, exhibits many of the same cognitive biases as humans when ...

Cognitive biases apply to many facets of life including ... you might know recency bias as the heuristic and availability bias. The recency bias suggests that gamblers and sports bettors base ...

The study's key finding is a dual trajectory in AI behavior. While GPT-4 showed advancements in cognitive reasoning, ...

Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative ... impression of the problem was even if it is not correct. Affect ...

Custody disputes often involve conflicting narratives about each parent. When evaluators encounter these competing stories, they risk falling into "angel and devil" script biases – the tendency to ...

The rest of the bitter comments and dismissal of government efforts can only be explained through the prism of cognitive bias and heuristics. Cognitive biases are described as “systematic ...