Common Cognitive Biases

Train yourself to recognize the most pervasive cognitive biases that distort everyday thinking. Through realistic scenarios spanning workplaces, hospitals, and personal relationships, you will learn to name each bias, understand its psychological roots, and apply concrete strategies to counteract it before it derails your next important decision.

beginner15 minCognitive Biases

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A product manager is deciding whether to pivot the company's flagship app. She spends three weeks researching, but every article she saves, every expert she interviews, and every dataset she highlights supports keeping the current direction — which happens to be the strategy she championed at last quarter's board meeting. A colleague points out two peer-reviewed studies suggesting the market is shifting, but she dismisses them as 'methodologically weak' after only skimming the abstracts. What bias is most clearly driving her research behavior?