Cognitive distortions, unconscious bias, cognitive bias, implicit bias, logical fallacies: you probably heard most or all of these terms. They can get really confusing if you don’t know the difference ...

When you come across articles about human decision-making, whether in the popular press or scientific literature, the probability is high that the expression "cognitive bias" is likely to be used. In ...

The self-serving bias is defined as people's tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. It's a common type of cognitive bias that ...

Feel free to celebrate explorers who found shorter routes from here to there. Marvel at feats of engineering that significantly reduced travel and shipping time. But think carefully and scrutinize ...

Imagine you decide to walk to the park. As you head out the front door, you take a left and walk for about a block. At that point, you realize it would’ve been a faster journey if you would’ve taken a ...

View the full episode transcript. Teachers are tasked with making countless decisions every day, and some of those decisions happen quickly because they are rooted in bias. While bias is everywhere, ...

The task of being an effective leader is a difficult one. All the real work of organizations gets done through people, individually or collectively, on their own or in collaboration with technology.

Amanda Montell has come on Marketplace a few times about the cult of work. We talked about why culty workplaces, like Neiman Marcus in the ‘80s, are so effective. We’ve also talked about the downsides ...

A fellow CEO once failed to live up to my expectations of them. Upset, I called my friend, complaining that someone could possibly be that way. He told me that just because I put someone on a pedestal ...