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
- 274
- Years Active
- 2025
How Belief Bias Warps Our Thinking and What You Can Do About It
Discover how belief bias shapes our decisions and learn to recognize your brain’s hidden biases to improve your critical thinking skills.
Mon 02 Jun 2025
How Instinctive Drift and Evolution Influence the Biased Brain
Explore instinctive drift and evolution’s role in shaping our minds and biases. Understand cognitive biases and improve critical thinking today.
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Anchoring Bias Explained: How Your First Guess Influences Every Decision
Discover how anchoring bias impacts your decisions and learn tips to outsmart this common cognitive bias affecting human cognition every day.
Sat 31 May 2025
How the Misinformation Effect Reveals Our Biased Brain
Discover how the misinformation effect distorts memories and why understanding cognitive biases is key to better critical thinking and decision making.
Fri 30 May 2025
Understanding the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Cognitive Biases in Everyday Decisions
Discover how the sunk cost fallacy and cognitive biases sneak into our decisions and learn to think clearly with insights from The Biased Brain by Bo Bennett, PhD.
Thu 29 May 2025
How Survival Processing Shapes Our Biased Brain and Decision Making
Explore how survival processing influences cognitive biases and impacts human cognition, memory, and decision making in everyday life.
Wed 28 May 2025
How Declinism Shows the Brain’s Bias and Shapes Our View of the World
Discover how declinism and other cognitive biases skew our perspective of reality, affecting decision making and human cognition every day.
Tue 27 May 2025
How Hindsight Bias Shapes Memory and Decision Making
Discover how hindsight bias affects memory and bias in decision making, and learn ways to improve critical thinking and understanding cognitive biases.
Mon 26 May 2025
How Optimism Bias Shapes Business Decisions and Why It Matters
Learn how optimism bias affects business decisions, influences human cognition, and what you can do to balance hope with realism for better outcomes.
Sun 25 May 2025
Why We Remember Young Adulthood So Clearly: The Reminiscence Bump Explained
Discover why our brains store vivid memories from young adulthood and how cognitive biases affect memory and decision-making throughout life.
Sat 24 May 2025
How Loss Aversion Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Action
Discover how loss aversion biases our decision making, why we fear losses more than we value gains, and ways to think more critically about our choices.
Fri 23 May 2025
Restraint Bias Explained: When Overconfidence Tricks Your Self-Control
Discover restraint bias, a cognitive bias that makes us overestimate self-control, and learn how it influences decision-making and human cognition.
Thu 22 May 2025
Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Decisions
Discover the classic cognitive dissonance experiment and learn how your biased brain processes conflicting beliefs and decisions every day.
Wed 21 May 2025
How Overcoming Attention Bias Improves Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Learn how to recognize and overcome attention bias to sharpen critical thinking, reduce bias in decision making, and better understand human cognition.
Tue 20 May 2025
How the IKEA Effect Reveals the Power of Cognitive Biases in Human Thinking
Discover the IKEA Effect and how our biased brain makes us value what we create. Learn about cognitive biases and critical thinking in everyday life.
Mon 19 May 2025
Understanding Pro-Innovation Bias and Risk in Human Cognition
Explore how pro-innovation bias affects risk perception and decision-making. Learn to think critically about new ideas and avoid biased choices.
Sun 18 May 2025
Understanding and Preventing Experimenter’s Bias in Research and Life
Learn how to recognize and prevent experimenter’s bias to improve critical thinking and decision making with insights into cognitive biases and human cognition.
Sat 17 May 2025
Understanding the Availability Heuristic: How Your Biased Brain Influences Decisions
Learn how the availability heuristic, a common cognitive bias, shapes your perception and decisions—discover insights into human cognition and bias in decision making.
Fri 16 May 2025
Justice-Oriented Thinking: Overcoming Bias in Fairness and Decision Making
Learn how justice-oriented thinking helps overcome biased brains and cognitive biases, leading to fairer decisions and stronger critical thinking skills.
Thu 15 May 2025
Understanding Cognitive Dissonance and Its Impact on Mental Health
Discover how cognitive dissonance affects mental health and decision making, plus tips on managing biased thinking for a healthier mindset.
Wed 14 May 2025
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