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Cognitive Biases
When making any tough decision, the key is not to be overly exploratory or exploitative.
In this excerpt from "The Art of Spending Money," Morgan Housel lays out the spending and financial habits guaranteed to end in regret.
“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.
Einstein is credited with saying, "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." What he actually said has a very different meaning.
How much can you know about someone from a single belief?
Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.
"Lookism" is prevalent and harmful. So why do so few take it seriously?
Embedding any leadership philosophy in sports demands a selective and multi-disciplinary approach.
By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
"I have a friend who thinks vaccines cause autism," writes Nina. "What can I do?"
Startup success can often hinge on a key lesson derived from behavioral science ... and Jerry Seinfeld's "Night Guy vs. Morning Guy" routine.
How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.
A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?
Big Think recently spoke with behavioral scientist and author Katy Milkman about what really motivates us and steers our behavior.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
To solve “addition bias” don’t punish people who subtract — call in the “friction fixers” instead.
To break "analysis paralysis," reduce the number of available options — and introduce an element of chance.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn't exist.
Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.
You’ve probably noticed that most retailers use prices ending in 99. That’s intentional.
Million Stories
Unmasking a "convenient untruth" in U.S. politics.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation