Cognitive Bias

The Certainty Effect: Why We Fail at Calculating Probabilities

August 10, 2013
Medium Maximization: The Tendency to Focus on Immediate Outcomes

July 14, 2013
Psychological Myopia: The Tendency to Think Short-Sightedly

July 12, 2013
The Temporal Doppler Effect: Why the Future Feels so Close and the Past so Distant

June 16, 2013
The Focusing-Effect: Why We End Up Making the Wrong Decisions

June 11, 2013
The Halo Effect: Why We Judge People From First Hand Impressions

June 1, 2013
Do We Have Free Will? People Believe They Have More Free Will Than Others

May 12, 2013
Actor-Observer Bias: Why We Blame Other People Instead of Ourselves

May 10, 2013
How Your Mood Influences Your Cognitive Functioning

May 5, 2013
The Endowment Effect: Why We Overrate the Value of Stuff

April 28, 2013