The Biased Brain Podcast


The Biased Brain Podcast with Owen Hawthorne
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.

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Understanding the Bystander Effect: A Look into Bias in Decision Making and Human Cognition

July 08, 2025

Discover how the classic bystander effect experiments reveal cognitive biases in human decision-making and social behavior, with insights for critical thinking.

How Restraint Bias Influences Consumer Behavior and Our Illusion of Self-Control

July 07, 2025

Discover how restraint bias leads to overestimating self-control in consumer choices and learn to recognize bias in decision making for better habits.

The Biased Brain: Understanding Perception Bias and Its Impact on Decision Making

July 06, 2025

Explore how perception bias shapes our worldviews and decisions, and learn ways to improve critical thinking by understanding cognitive biases.

How the Google Effect Shapes Our Biased Brain and Memory

July 05, 2025

Discover how the Google Effect impacts human cognition, memory, and critical thinking, influencing bias in decision making every day.

How Choice Overload Hijacks Your Brain and Decision Making

July 04, 2025

Too many options can overwhelm your brain and hurt decision making. Learn about choice overload, cognitive biases, and how to think more clearly.

Understanding the Fair World Assumption: How Our Biased Brain Sees Justice

July 03, 2025

Discover how the Fair World Assumption shapes our thinking and biases, influencing empathy, decisions, and critical thinking in everyday life.

How Status Quo Bias Sabotages Better Decisions: Real Case Studies on Cognitive Biases

July 02, 2025

Discover how status quo bias affects decision making with real case studies. Learn to recognize this cognitive bias and improve your critical thinking skills.

Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: Why Our Youthful Memories Stand Out

July 01, 2025

Discover why memories from your youth feel sharper — explore the reminiscence bump and its impact on human cognition and biased brain function.

How the Google Effect Changes Your Memory and Thinking

June 30, 2025

Explore how the Google Effect shapes memory and decision making, revealing key insights about cognitive biases and human cognition in the digital age.

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Cognitive Biases for Better Decision MakingHow Disconfirmation Bias Shapes Our Thinking and DecisionsCognitive Biases and Moral Reasoning: How Our Brains Shape Right and WrongSalience Bias and Other Cognitive Biases: Understanding How Our Biased Brain Shapes DecisionsSalience Bias in Media: How Our Brains Get Drawn to the Most Noticeable StoriesHow Cognitive Biases Shape Our Memory and PerceptionHow Confirmation Bias Shapes Our Media Consumption and Decision MakingUnderstanding Overconfidence Bias: How Our Minds Trick Us in Decision MakingUnderstanding False Consensus and Other Cognitive Biases in Human CognitionUnderstanding the Cross-Race Effect: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Face RecognitionHow to Spot Overconfidence Bias and Outsmart Your Biased BrainSympathy Bias in Politics: How Our Emotional Brains Shape Political ChoicesEscalation of Commitment: How Cognitive Biases Influence Business DecisionsThe Perseverance Effect: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Motivation and Decision MakingStatus Quo Bias in Politics: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Voting and ChangeUnderstanding Cognitive Biases and the Google Effect on Human CognitionUnderstanding Negativity Bias and Memory: How Our Brains Remember the Bad More Than the GoodHow to Overcome Confirmation Bias and Think More ClearlyMitigating Cultural Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Cognition for Fairer ThinkingUnderstanding Status Quo Bias: How Our Biased Brain Prefers Familiar ChoicesHow Survival Processing Shapes Our Biased Brain and Decision MakingHow Social Desirability Shapes Your Interview Answers and Brain BiasesHow Escalation of Commitment Shapes Our Decisions and How to Stop ItHow Belief Bias Warps Our Thinking and What You Can Do About ItHow Instinctive Drift and Evolution Influence the Biased BrainAnchoring Bias Explained: How Your First Guess Influences Every DecisionHow the Misinformation Effect Reveals Our Biased BrainUnderstanding the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Cognitive Biases in Everyday DecisionsHow Declinism Shows the Brain’s Bias and Shapes Our View of the WorldHow Hindsight Bias Shapes Memory and Decision MakingHow Optimism Bias Shapes Business Decisions and Why It MattersWhy We Remember Young Adulthood So Clearly: The Reminiscence Bump ExplainedHow Loss Aversion Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases in ActionRestraint Bias Explained: When Overconfidence Tricks Your Self-ControlUnderstanding Cognitive Dissonance: How Our Biased Brain Shapes DecisionsHow Overcoming Attention Bias Improves Critical Thinking and Decision MakingHow the IKEA Effect Reveals the Power of Cognitive Biases in Human ThinkingUnderstanding Pro-Innovation Bias and Risk in Human CognitionUnderstanding and Preventing Experimenter’s Bias in Research and LifeUnderstanding the Availability Heuristic: How Your Biased Brain Influences DecisionsJustice-Oriented Thinking: Overcoming Bias in Fairness and Decision MakingUnderstanding Cognitive Dissonance and Its Impact on Mental 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Attention Bias Shapes Mental Health: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Our MindsUnderstanding False Memories: How Our Biased Brain Tricks UsUnderstanding Intergroup Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Social DividesUnderstanding Escalation of Commitment: Why We Keep Making Bad Decisions How the Paradox of Choice Affects Your Brain and Decision MakingHow the Framing Effect Shapes Your Decisions: Examples of Cognitive Biases How Survivorship Bias Clouds Our Judgment and Decision MakingEmpathy-Altruism and Cognitive Biases: Understanding the Biased Brain Behind Helping Behavior How the Horn Effect Shapes Brand Perception and Consumer DecisionsUnraveling the Primacy Effect in Marketing StrategiesExploring Moral Credentials and Bias in Decision MakingCognitive Biases: Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias ExplainedUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Quirky Effect of Confirmation BiasUnderstanding Your Bias Blind Spot: Why You Might Be More Biased Than You ThinkUnderstanding the Framing 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LifeCognitive Biases in Human Cognition: Insights into the Cross-Race EffectThe Biased Brain: Unpacking Outcome BiasPessimism Bias: Why Our Biased Brains Focus on Negativity Understanding Confirmation Bias: A Journey Through Our Biased BrainUnderstanding the Forer Effect in Relationships and Unmasking Cognitive BiasesHow the Google Effect Shapes Our Cognitive BiasesCognitive Dissonance: The Battle Within Our MindsAnchoring Bias: Navigating the Biased Brain in Decision MakingThe Biased Brain in Decision Making: Unlocking Optimism Bias How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Memories and DecisionsNavigate The Subtle World Of Cognitive BiasesUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Recency EffectBreaking Free from the Biased Brain's Sunk Cost FallacyEmpathy Driven Altruism and the Biased BrainUnveiling False Consensus: How Our Biased Brain Affects DecisionsUnderstanding Cognitive Biases in Relationships: Dispositional Bias UncoveredAudience Effect: Shaping Performance and Unmasking Cognitive BiasesUnderstanding Your Biased Brain: The Social Comparison TrapUnderstanding Our Biased Brain: The Reminiscence Bump ExplainedUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Pessimism Bias PuzzleUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Egocentric TrapBreak Bias: Navigate Ingroup-Outgroup DynamicsUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Conjunction Fallacy UnmaskedNaive Realism and the Biased BrainEquity Perception: Exploring Our Human CognitionUnderstanding Human Cognition: The Cross-Race EffectUnderstanding Workplace Egocentric Bias and Our Biased BrainUnderstanding Cognitive Biases for Better Decision MakingHow Cognitive Biases Shape the Subadditivity EffectInstinctive Drift and Human CognitionUnderstanding Cognitive Biases and Empathy in Human BehaviorHow the Google Effect Shapes Our Biased BrainThe Biased Brain: Understanding the Identifiable Victim EffectUnderstanding the Gambler's Fallacy: A History of Cognitive BiasBridging the Empathy Gap: Understanding Our Biased BrainUnderstanding Cognitive Biases and Loss Aversion in ShoppingThe Bystander Effect and Our Biased Brain in the Digital AgeReduce Social Comparison Bias: A Biased Brain PodcastUnderstanding Zero-Risk Bias and Risk ManagementUnderstanding the Halo Effect: How First Impressions Shape Our Biased BrainUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Sympathy Bias ExplainedThe Endowment Effect: How Our Biased Brain Values PossessionsUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Rationalization TrapHow Attention Bias Influences Decision MakingUnderstanding Halo and Horn Effects in Human PerceptionUnderstanding System Justification and Mental HealthExploring the Pseudocertainty Effect in Decision MakingThe Paradox of Choice: Understanding Bias in Decision MakingExploring Intergroup Bias: A Journey into the Biased BrainDisconfirmation Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human PerceptionThe Forer Effect: How Our Biased Brain Interprets HoroscopesUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Strategies for a Harmonious WorldUnraveling the Planning Fallacy: How Cognitive Biases Impact Decision MakingUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Declinism and NostalgiaUnderstanding Zero-Risk Bias: How It Shapes Our DecisionsUnderstanding the Primacy Effect in Decision MakingUnderstanding Cognitive Biases and the Bystander EffectExploring Zero-Risk Bias: Your Biased Brain UnveiledUnderstanding Restraint Bias: How Overestimating Self-Control Affects Decision MakingUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Impact of Reactive DevaluationUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Horn vs. Halo EffectEmbracing or Resisting Change: How Our Biased Brains DecideUncovering the Rhyming Influence of Cognitive BiasesUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Rhyme-As-Reason EffectUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Navigating the Biased BrainUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Conquer Dispositional BiasThe Biased Brain: How Identifiable Victims Sway Our EmotionsExploring Cognitive Biases in Education: The Dunning-Kruger EffectOutgroup Homogeneity Bias: The Biased Brain's Hidden ShortcutUnderstanding Dispositional Bias: A Dive into Human CognitionUnveiling the Ben Franklin Effect: A Surprising Cognitive BiasUnderstanding Declinism: The Biased Brain's Influence on PerceptionExploring Empathy and Altruism in Human CognitionInstinctive Drift: Unveiling the Biased BrainUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Pull of Status Quo BiasOvercoming Self-Serving Bias: Shifting Perspectives on Success and FailureThe Framing Effect: A Deep Dive into How Context Shapes Our DecisionsExploring Gambler's Fallacy: A Biased Brain InsightHow the Perseverance Effect Shapes Our Biased BrainDecoding Intergroup Bias: Insights from The Biased BrainExploring the Recency Effect in Marketing and Cognitive BiasesUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Impact of Loss AversionUnderstanding Time-Saving Bias in Human CognitionNavigating Inequality: Unmasking Cognitive Biases and Societal InfluencesBias in Decision-Making: The Pro-Innovation TrapUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Trait Ascription Bias ExplainedHow the Mere Exposure Effect Shapes Our Biased BrainUnraveling the Conjunction Fallacy: Insights into Human CognitionNavigating the Biased Brain: Mitigating Pro-Innovation BiasEmpathy vs. Self-Interest: The Biased Brain ExploresUnderstanding the Bystander Effect and Our Biased BrainExploring Cognitive Biases: The Spotlight Effect and Self-EsteemUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: The Rationalization Trap in Decision-MakingUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Hindsight vs. Confirmation BiasUnderstanding Cognitive Biases: Overcoming the Spotlight Effect