The Biased Brain Podcast
Explore the intriguing world of cognitive biases and human cognition in this engaging podcast. Discover how bias in decision making shapes our perceptions and influences our choices. Join us as we delve into the science behind critical thinking and biases, providing practical insights to enhance your understanding and control over your thought processes. Whether you're a psychology student or curious observer, this podcast offers valuable tools to help you unveil the hidden biases in your mind.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Episodes
- 272
- Years Active
- 2025
Why Our Biased Brain Causes Us to Underestimate Time: Understanding the Planning Fallacy
Discover why the planning fallacy tricks us all into underestimating time, and how understanding cognitive biases can improve your decision making.
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Understanding the Bystander Effect: Human Cognition and Cognitive Biases in Action
Discover real-life examples of the bystander effect and learn how cognitive biases influence our behavior in emergencies and social settings.
Mon 18 Aug 2025
How Salience Bias Shapes Your Shopping Habits and Decisions
Discover how salience bias impacts marketing and why your brain focuses on flashy ads, shaping the way you make choices every day.
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Understanding Survivorship Bias and Its Impact on Decision Making
Discover survivorship bias—how focusing on winners skews our view—and learn why understanding cognitive biases matters for better decision making.
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Our Decisions
Discover what cognitive dissonance is, why our brains seek consistency, and how understanding cognitive biases improves decision making and critical thinking.
Fri 15 Aug 2025
How Reactive Devaluation Shapes Our Biases and Decisions
Reactive devaluation subtly twists our judgment, fueling bias in decision making. Learn how understanding cognitive biases can improve critical thinking.
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Understanding the Framing Effect: How Bias Shapes Your Decisions
Discover how the framing effect influences your choices and learn to recognize cognitive biases for better decision making and critical thinking.
Wed 13 Aug 2025
The Reminiscence Bump: Why Our Teenage Memories Stand Out in Human Cognition
Discover why memories from our teens and twenties stand out more with the reminiscence bump and its link to cognitive biases and biased brain patterns.
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Overcoming the Empathy Gap: How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Understanding
Discover how the empathy gap distorts our understanding and learn practical ways to overcome cognitive biases in everyday life for better connections.
Mon 11 Aug 2025
How Anchoring Bias Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Biased Brain
Discover how anchoring bias affects your decisions and learn to recognize it for better critical thinking and clearer understanding of human cognition.
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Understanding Reactive Devaluation: How Cognitive Biases Affect Our Judgments
Discover how reactive devaluation and prejudice shape biased decision-making and learn to recognize these cognitive biases in daily life.
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Hyperbolic Discounting Explained: How Our Biased Brain Chooses Now Over Later
Discover hyperbolic discounting with real-life examples and understand how cognitive biases impact decisions between immediate and future rewards.
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Understanding the Empathy Gap and Its Impact on Cognitive Biases
Discover how the empathy gap influences cognitive biases and affects our decisions – learn why understanding this helps improve human cognition and critical thinking.
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Exploring the Ben Franklin Effect: How Doing Favors Changes Your Mind
Discover how the Ben Franklin Effect reveals surprising ways our biased brain shapes relationships and decisions through cognitive biases.
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Effort Justification Explained: Why We Value Hard Work More Than We Think
Discover how effort justification shapes our decisions and perceptions, revealing surprising biases in human cognition and critical thinking.
Tue 05 Aug 2025
How the Fading Affect Bias Shapes Our Memories and Emotions
Discover how the fading affect bias causes negative memories to lose impact faster than positive ones, shaping how we remember life’s moments.
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Closing the Empathy Gap: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Connection
Discover why the empathy gap happens, how cognitive biases affect understanding others, and ways to improve your emotional awareness and decision making.
Sun 03 Aug 2025
How Naive Realism Explains Our Biased Brain and Bias in Decision Making
Discover naive realism and why we all believe our perspective is the “real” one, affecting bias in decision making and critical thinking.
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Understanding the Backfire Effect: How the Biased Brain Strengthens Our Beliefs
Learn why trying to correct false beliefs can backfire, revealing how cognitive biases shape human thinking and decision making.
Fri 01 Aug 2025
How the Audience Effect in Sports Reveals Our Biased Brain and Decision Making
Discover how the audience effect in sports influences athlete performance and decision making, revealing hidden biases in human cognition.
Thu 31 Jul 2025
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