Understanding Cognitive Biases 1 Why We're Blind to Our Own Biases

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https://us04web.zoom.us/j/594932535 Private message me over meetup to get the password. The attendee limit is 10 to allow easier discussion. Understanding Cognitive Biases (https://plus.thegreatcourses.com/understanding-cognitive-biases) "Understand how your brain’s efficiency shortcuts can leave you with a biased view of the world and learn how to combat these tendencies in your everyday life." At each meeting, we watch / listen to a lecture together and then discuss it together. Typically, we cover one lecture per week. See the event’s title for what lecture is for that event. Here is the full list of lectures for the course: 1 Why We're Blind to Our Own Biases 2 Things We Want to Be True: Confirmation Bias 3 We See People In and Behind Everything 4 We Love It Because We Built It 5 Why We Think Differently in Groups 6 Learn Better with Cognitive Biases 7 Expectations Change Results: Observer Bias 8 Bias Boot Camp for Better Decisions 9 We Think Others' Behaviors Are Their Fault 10 How Memory Is Biased toward Misinformation 11 How Fast Thinking Leads to a Great Fall 12 I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias 13 Even Random Outcomes Lead to Bias 14 How Con Artists Exploit Our Biases 15 Stereotypes: See the Person, Not the Group 16 Biases from Knowing Too Much or Too Little 17 Is That Memory Mine or Someone Else's? 18 I Believe, Therefore I Think: Belief Bias 19 Why Emotional Peaks and Endings Matter 20 We Lie to Be Socially Desirable 21 Why Emotional Gaps Cause Trouble 22 Only Survivors Tell the Story 23 Reactance: You Can't Watch This Lecture! 24 Status Quo: The More Things Change …