Brain Biases & News

Welcome to Cris Evatt's summaries of 50 hardwired, irrational brain biases. Deeply ingrained, the biases are amongst the building blocks of human nature. Each bias suggests that free will is a myth, concept and illusion.

Daniel Kahneman speaks at U.C. Berkeley

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This book was written for a mainstream audience, for people who wonder: Do I have free will? If not, why does it feel like I do? And it was written for people who understand that free will is a myth (the choir) and want to share this understanding with friends who might feel disturbed or intimidated by the subject. Read edgy essays and quotes by more than 50 of the world's leading thinkers.
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LINKS TO 50 BRAIN BIASES

  • Actor-Observer Bias
  • Anchoring Effect
  • Authority Bias
  • Availability Bias
  • Barnum Effect
  • Beautiful-People Bias
  • Base-Rate Bias
  • Better-Than-Average Bias
  • Bias Blind Spot
  • Choice Blindness Effect
  • Choice-Supportive Bias
  • Compromise Effect
  • Confirmation Bias
  • Conservatism Bias
  • Contrast Bias
  • Déformation Professionnelle Bias
  • Denial Bias
  • Distinction Bias
  • Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • Endowment Effect
  • Expert's Opinion Bias
  • Fading-Effect Bias
  • Familarity Bias
  • Framing Effect
  • Gambler's Fallacy
  • GroupThink Bias
  • Gullibility-Control Bias
  • Halo Effect
  • Hindsight Bias
  • Illusion-of-Control Bias
  • Illusory-Correlation Bias
  • Impact Bias
  • Information-Binge Bias
  • Ingroup Bias
  • Instant-Gratification Bias
  • Just-World Bias
  • Life-After-Death Bias
  • Look-Alikes Bias
  • Loss-Aversion Bias
  • Money Illusion
  • Neglect-of-Probability Bias
  • Omissions Bias
  • Optimism Bias
  • Ostrich Effect
  • Outgroup Homogeneity Bias
  • Paranormal Bias
  • Planning Fallacy
  • Projection Bias
  • Reactance Bias
  • Racism Bias
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  • Self-Serving Bias
  • Status Quo Bias
  • Trait-Ascription Bias
  • Von Restorff Effect
  • Wishful-Thinking Bias
  • GLOSSARY

BEST BRAIN PODCASTS

  • Ginger's Brain Science Podcast
  • All in the Mind
  • Scientific American Mind

RELATED BOOKS

  • The Neuro Revolution
  • The Hidden Brain
  • The Ego Tunnel
  • Ten Zen Questions
  • Why We Make Mistakes
  • How We Decide
  • The Mind of the Market
  • Predictably Irrational
  • Sway
  • Heuristics & Biases
  • Don't Believe Everything You Think
  • A Mind of It's Own
  • Kluge
  • On Being Certain
  • Nudge
  • Quirkology
  • The Drunkard's Walk
  • The Black Swan
  • How We Know What Isn't So

BRAIN NEWS SOURCES

  • Scientific American Mind
  • New Scientist
  • Nature Neuroscience

EDGY NEUROSITES

  • The Frontal Cortex
  • Overcoming Bias (Oxford U.)
  • Cognitive Daily
  • Daniel Wegner's Website
  • Scientific American Mind
  • PsyBlog: Understand Your Mind
  • ScienceBlogs
  • Let's Wake Up Folks

HOW THE BRAIN WORKS

  • Cool Brain Interactive

QUOTABLE QUOTE

"Unless we are aware of our tendency to act irrationally in certain situations, then we will continue to act irrationally."

—DAN ARIELY, author of Predictably Irrational
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