Skills 360 – What is Cognitive Bias?

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/360.108-Habits-2.mp3 Welcome back to the Business English Skills 360 podcast as we look at how you can help others to develop good habits at work. Making and breaking your own habits is hard enough. But as a manager or leader, how can you ...  Show more

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/360.107-Habits-1.mp3 Welcome back to the Business English Skills 360 podcast as we look at how to develop good habits for success at work. The start of a new year feels like the right time to make big resolutions, or promises to yourself. ...  Show more

In this episode, we encourage you to take a closer look at your own biases by removing the metaphorical glasses that may cloud your perception. We'll delve into the impact of cognitive biases, which are patterns of thinking that deviate from rational and objective thought. We'll ...  Show more

In this episode we are going to talk about how random dice rolls can influence judges to give people longer jail sentences, how so-called experts are massively influenced by completely random numbers – even when they explicitly deny it – and how you can better understand this cra ...  Show more

Your perception is biased. Understanding the world around you is probably biased because of how the brain jumps to conclusions. These types of jumps are called cognitive biases. They seek to create a story out of as little information as possible, to avoid uncertainty. Battling c ...  Show more

My guest today is celebrated research psychologist Gary Klein who has spent nearly 50 years studying how and why people make the decisions they do. We discuss naturalistic decision making, the crucial difference between experience and expertise, why some people stagnate and other ...  Show more