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Great Course Cognitive Bias

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What this book knows

The mind systematically distorts perception, memory, and judgment through predictable biases that can be recognized and partially countered.

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Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

Confirmation bias is the tendency to accept information confirming existing worldviews and actively reject information opposing them.
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Memory is reconstructed and anchored—participants remembering difficult knowledge questions reshaped their recall to fit later feedback.
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We hear only about successes; survivorship bias makes homeopathic treatments seem effective when failures simply go unrecorded.
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self-and-identity

We can't know for sure why someone did what they did; we fabricate causal explanations, systematically blaming persons over situations.
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The social desirability bias drives us to tell fibs about our attitudes to appear acceptable, rooted in biological need for group belonging.
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Testing beats repeated studying: practice tests produce measurably better retention than additional reading sessions across multiple conditions.
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