Articles for tag: BrainScience, CognitiveBias, CriticalThinking, DecisionMaking

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8 Ways Our Brain Tricks Us into Bad Decisions

Suhail Ahmed

  We like to believe our choices are the result of careful thinking, but much of the time our brain is quietly steering us down mental side roads we never notice. From money decisions to medical choices to who we trust, hidden shortcuts in our minds can tilt us toward outcomes we later regret. Psychologists ...

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12 Signs You’re Falling Into a Cognitive Bias Trap

Suhail Ahmed

  You probably like to think of yourself as a rational, data-driven person. Yet, from political arguments to financial decisions to late-night doomscrolling, your brain is quietly playing tricks on you in ways psychologists are still mapping out. Cognitive biases are not rare glitches; they are built-in shortcuts that helped our ancestors survive, but now ...