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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Sympathy Bias in Politics: How Our Emotional Brains Shape Political Choices

June 14, 2025

Discover how sympathy bias affects political decision making and learn to balance emotions and facts for clearer thinking in politics.

Escalation of Commitment: How Cognitive Biases Influence Business Decisions

June 13, 2025

Discover why businesses keep investing in failing projects and how understanding cognitive biases can lead to smarter decision making and better outcomes.

The Perseverance Effect: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Motivation and Decision Making

June 12, 2025

Discover how the perseverance effect influences motivation and decision making, and why understanding cognitive biases improves critical thinking.

Status Quo Bias in Politics: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Voting and Change

June 11, 2025

Explore how status quo bias influences politics, voter behavior, and resistance to change through understanding cognitive biases in human decision making.

Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Google Effect on Human Cognition

June 10, 2025

Discover how the Google Effect influences cognitive biases and decision making, while learning to improve critical thinking and reduce bias in your mind.

Understanding Negativity Bias and Memory: How Our Brains Remember the Bad More Than the Good

June 09, 2025

Discover how negativity bias shapes memory and decision making, and learn to balance your mind for better critical thinking and awareness.

How to Overcome Confirmation Bias and Think More Clearly

June 08, 2025

Learn practical ways to overcome confirmation bias and improve your decision making by understanding cognitive biases and human cognition.

Mitigating Cultural Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Cognition for Fairer Thinking

June 07, 2025

Learn how cultural bias influences our thinking and discover practical ways to reduce bias in decision making through better understanding of cognitive biases.

Understanding Status Quo Bias: How Our Biased Brain Prefers Familiar Choices

June 06, 2025

Discover why our brains favor the familiar with status quo bias and how understanding cognitive biases can improve decision making every day.

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Sympathy Bias in Politics: How Our Emotional Brains Shape Political Choices • Escalation of Commitment: How Cognitive Biases Influence Business Decisions • The Perseverance Effect: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Motivation and Decision Making • Status Quo Bias in Politics: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Voting and Change • Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Google Effect on Human Cognition • Understanding Negativity Bias and Memory: How Our Brains Remember the Bad More Than the Good • How to Overcome Confirmation Bias and Think More Clearly • Mitigating Cultural Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Cognition for Fairer Thinking • Understanding Status Quo Bias: How Our Biased Brain Prefers Familiar Choices • How Survival Processing Shapes Our Biased Brain and Decision Making • How Social Desirability Shapes Your Interview Answers and Brain Biases • How Escalation of Commitment Shapes Our Decisions and How to Stop It • How Belief Bias Warps Our Thinking and What You Can Do About It • How Instinctive Drift and Evolution Influence the Biased Brain • Anchoring Bias Explained: How Your First Guess Influences Every Decision • How the Misinformation Effect Reveals Our Biased Brain • Understanding the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Cognitive Biases in Everyday Decisions • How Declinism Shows the Brain’s Bias and Shapes Our View of the World • How Hindsight Bias Shapes Memory and Decision Making • How Optimism Bias Shapes Business Decisions and Why It Matters • Why We Remember Young Adulthood So Clearly: The Reminiscence Bump Explained • How Loss Aversion Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Action • Restraint Bias Explained: When Overconfidence Tricks Your Self-Control • Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Decisions • How Overcoming Attention Bias Improves Critical Thinking and Decision Making • How the IKEA Effect Reveals the Power of Cognitive Biases in Human Thinking • Understanding Pro-Innovation Bias and Risk in Human Cognition • Understanding and Preventing Experimenter’s Bias in Research and Life • Understanding the Availability Heuristic: How Your Biased Brain Influences Decisions • Justice-Oriented Thinking: Overcoming Bias in Fairness and Decision Making • Understanding Cognitive Dissonance and Its Impact on Mental Health • Common Examples of Declinism and How Our Biased Brain Shapes Perception • How the Paradox of Choice Reveals Bias in Decision Making and Human Cognition • Everyday Examples of the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Understanding Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Endowment Effect and Loss Aversion: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Decisions • How Deservingness Bias Shapes Our Judgment and Decision Making • Confirmation Bias in Healthcare: How Our Minds Affect Medical Decisions • Understanding Overconfidence Bias: How Our Brains Trick Us into False Certainty • Understanding the Bias Blind Spot: How Our Brains Trick Us at Work • Understanding Pro-Innovation Bias: When New Isn’t Always Better • How Rhyme Tricks Your Brain: The Psychology Behind Reason and Bias • Practical Solutions to Overcome the Bystander Effect and Understand Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Just-World Theory: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Perceptions • How Restraint Bias Sabotages Our Self-Control: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Decision Making • How Attention Bias Shapes Mental Health: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Our Minds • Understanding False Memories: How Our Biased Brain Tricks Us • Understanding Intergroup Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Social Divides • Understanding Escalation of Commitment: Why We Keep Making Bad Decisions • How the Paradox of Choice Affects Your Brain and Decision Making • How the Framing Effect Shapes Your Decisions: Examples of Cognitive Biases • How Survivorship Bias Clouds Our Judgment and Decision Making • Empathy-Altruism and Cognitive Biases: Understanding the Biased Brain Behind Helping Behavior • How the Horn Effect Shapes Brand Perception and Consumer Decisions • Unraveling the Primacy Effect in Marketing Strategies • Exploring Moral Credentials and Bias in Decision Making • Cognitive Biases: Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias Explained • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Quirky Effect of Confirmation Bias • Understanding Your Bias Blind Spot: Why You Might Be More Biased Than You Think • Understanding the Framing Effect in Human Cognition • Understanding Cognitive Biases through the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis • Understanding the Bias in Decision Making • The Biased Brain: Status Quo Bias vs Change • Understanding System Justification and Cognitive Biases • Identifiable Victim Effect: Our Biased Brain in Decision Making • Egocentric Bias: Uncovering the Biased Brain's Secrets • Exploring Human Cognition: The Third-Person Effect's Impact on Our Biased Brains • Exploring the Endowment Effect: Insights into Your Biased Brain • Navigating the Rationalization Trap • An Eye-Opening Look at Naive Realism and Bias • Understanding the Clustering Illusion: Exploring Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Availability Heuristic in Everyday Decision-Making • How Cognitive Biases Shape Marketing Strategies • Understanding the Role of Unit Bias in Human Cognition • Exploring the Biased Brain: Unraveling Intergroup Bias • The Bias Blind Spot: Our Quirky Brains Unveiled • Unlocking Cognitive Biases: Understanding Group Attribution Error and Stereotypes • The Paradox of Choice: Navigating Cognitive Biases in Decision-Making • The Biased Brain and the Misinformation Drama • Understanding Conservatism Bias: Why We Cling to Old Beliefs • Naive Realism vs. Scientific Realism: Navigating Human Perception • Anchoring Bias: How Our Biased Brain Skews Decisions • The Biased Brain: Understanding the Primacy Effect and First Impressions • Finding Memory Anchors: Importance of the Reminiscence Bump in the Biased Brain • Exploring Illusory Correlations and Our Biased Brain • Rhyme Reason Bias: How Catchy Phrases Sway Our Minds • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Cross-Race Effect • Discover the Quirky Unit Bias: A Dive into Human Cognition • Understanding the Planning Fallacy in Our Biased Decision-Making • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Framing Effect Explored • Understanding Cognitive Biases in Leadership • Avoiding Misplaced Patterns: Strategies Against Clustering Illusion • Cognitive Biases and Health Decisions • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Gambler's Fallacy in Everyday Life • Cognitive Biases in Human Cognition: Insights into the Cross-Race Effect • The Biased Brain: Unpacking Outcome Bias • Pessimism Bias: Why Our Biased Brains Focus on Negativity • Understanding Confirmation Bias: A Journey Through Our Biased Brain • Understanding the Forer Effect in Relationships and Unmasking Cognitive Biases • How the Google Effect Shapes Our Cognitive Biases • Cognitive Dissonance: The Battle Within Our Minds • Anchoring Bias: Navigating the Biased Brain in Decision Making • The Biased Brain in Decision Making: Unlocking Optimism Bias • How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Memories and Decisions • Navigate The Subtle World Of Cognitive Biases • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Recency Effect • Breaking Free from the Biased Brain's Sunk Cost Fallacy • Empathy Driven Altruism and the Biased Brain • Unveiling False Consensus: How Our Biased Brain Affects Decisions • Understanding Cognitive Biases in Relationships: Dispositional Bias Uncovered • Audience Effect: Shaping Performance and Unmasking Cognitive Biases • Understanding Your Biased Brain: The Social Comparison Trap • Understanding Our Biased Brain: The Reminiscence Bump Explained • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Pessimism Bias Puzzle • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Egocentric Trap • Break Bias: Navigate Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Conjunction Fallacy Unmasked • Naive Realism and the Biased Brain • Equity Perception: Exploring Our Human Cognition • Understanding Human Cognition: The Cross-Race Effect • Understanding Workplace Egocentric Bias and Our Biased Brain • Understanding Cognitive Biases for Better Decision Making • How Cognitive Biases Shape the Subadditivity Effect • Instinctive Drift and Human Cognition • Understanding Cognitive Biases and Empathy in Human Behavior • How the Google Effect Shapes Our Biased Brain • The Biased Brain: Understanding the Identifiable Victim Effect • Understanding the Gambler's Fallacy: A History of Cognitive Bias • Bridging the Empathy Gap: Understanding Our Biased Brain • Understanding Cognitive Biases and Loss Aversion in Shopping • The Bystander Effect and Our Biased Brain in the Digital Age • Reduce Social Comparison Bias: A Biased Brain Podcast • Understanding Zero-Risk Bias and Risk Management • Understanding the Halo Effect: How First Impressions Shape Our Biased Brain • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Sympathy Bias Explained • The Endowment Effect: How Our Biased Brain Values Possessions • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Rationalization Trap • How Attention Bias Influences Decision Making • Understanding Halo and Horn Effects in Human Perception • Understanding System Justification and Mental Health • Exploring the Pseudocertainty Effect in Decision Making • The Paradox of Choice: Understanding Bias in Decision Making • Exploring Intergroup Bias: A Journey into the Biased Brain • Disconfirmation Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Perception • The Forer Effect: How Our Biased Brain Interprets Horoscopes • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Strategies for a Harmonious World • Unraveling the Planning Fallacy: How Cognitive Biases Impact Decision Making • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Declinism and Nostalgia • Understanding Zero-Risk Bias: How It Shapes Our Decisions • Understanding the Primacy Effect in Decision Making • Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Bystander Effect • Exploring Zero-Risk Bias: Your Biased Brain Unveiled • Understanding Restraint Bias: How Overestimating Self-Control Affects Decision Making • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Impact of Reactive Devaluation • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Horn vs. Halo Effect • Embracing or Resisting Change: How Our Biased Brains Decide • Uncovering the Rhyming Influence of Cognitive Biases • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Rhyme-As-Reason Effect • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Navigating the Biased Brain • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Conquer Dispositional Bias • The Biased Brain: How Identifiable Victims Sway Our Emotions • Exploring Cognitive Biases in Education: The Dunning-Kruger Effect • Outgroup Homogeneity Bias: The Biased Brain's Hidden Shortcut • Understanding Dispositional Bias: A Dive into Human Cognition • Unveiling the Ben Franklin Effect: A Surprising Cognitive Bias • Understanding Declinism: The Biased Brain's Influence on Perception • Exploring Empathy and Altruism in Human Cognition • Instinctive Drift: Unveiling the Biased Brain • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Pull of Status Quo Bias • Overcoming Self-Serving Bias: Shifting Perspectives on Success and Failure • The Framing Effect: A Deep Dive into How Context Shapes Our Decisions • Exploring Gambler's Fallacy: A Biased Brain Insight • How the Perseverance Effect Shapes Our Biased Brain • Decoding Intergroup Bias: Insights from The Biased Brain • Exploring the Recency Effect in Marketing and Cognitive Biases • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Impact of Loss Aversion • Understanding Time-Saving Bias in Human Cognition • Navigating Inequality: Unmasking Cognitive Biases and Societal Influences • Bias in Decision-Making: The Pro-Innovation Trap • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Trait Ascription Bias Explained • How the Mere Exposure Effect Shapes Our Biased Brain • Unraveling the Conjunction Fallacy: Insights into Human Cognition • Navigating the Biased Brain: Mitigating Pro-Innovation Bias • Empathy vs. Self-Interest: The Biased Brain Explores • Understanding the Bystander Effect and Our Biased Brain • Exploring Cognitive Biases: The Spotlight Effect and Self-Esteem • Understanding Cognitive Biases: The Rationalization Trap in Decision-Making • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Hindsight vs. Confirmation Bias • Understanding Cognitive Biases: Overcoming the Spotlight Effect •