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Episode 58

58. Recognizing Cognitive Bias: The Hidden Shortcuts in Our Minds

33 min·August 13, 2025·Critical Thinking

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What you'll hear

This episode covers eleven common cognitive biases, giving real-life examples and ideas for how to combat them. We talk about anchoring bias, effort bias, egocentric bias, hindsight bias, optimism and pessimism biases, recency bias, confirmation bias, present bias, scarcity bias, and urgency bias.


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