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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Attention Bias in Anxiety: How Your Brain Skews Perception and Why It Matters

October 15, 2025

Discover how attention bias shapes anxiety, affecting how we see threats, and learn ways to recognize and overcome this common cognitive distortion.

How Memory Illusions Reveal the Biased Brain and Impact Decision Making

October 14, 2025

Discover how memory illusions unveil cognitive biases in human cognition and why our memories aren’t always reliable. Learn to sharpen critical thinking today.

Effort Justification: How Our Biased Brain Makes Us Value Hard Work More

October 13, 2025

Discover how effort justification influences human cognition and biases in decision making, shaping why we value what we struggle for.

How to Overcome Choice-Supportive Bias and Outsmart Your Biased Brain

October 12, 2025

Learn how choice-supportive bias affects your decisions and discover simple ways to recognize and overcome this and other cognitive biases for better choices.

How the Paradox of Choice Shapes Your Decisions and Marketing

October 11, 2025

Discover why having too many options causes stress and indecision, and how marketers use this paradox to influence your choices.

How Choice Overload Impacts Your Mind and Decision Making

October 10, 2025

Discover why too many choices can overwhelm your brain and learn how understanding cognitive biases can improve your decision-making.

Understanding Attention Bias in ADHD: How Our Biased Brain Affects Focus and Decision Making

October 09, 2025

Discover how attention bias in ADHD shapes focus and behavior, and learn how understanding cognitive biases can improve critical thinking and everyday life.

Pro-Innovation Bias: Why Startups Often Overestimate New Ideas and How to Think Smarter

October 08, 2025

Discover how pro-innovation bias impacts startup success and learn practical ways to overcome this common cognitive bias for better decision making.

How Hyperbolic Discounting Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases

October 07, 2025

Explore how hyperbolic discounting influences decision making and why we crave instant rewards over better future gains.

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How the Paradox of Choice Shapes Your Decisions and Marketing • How Choice Overload Impacts Your Mind and Decision Making • Understanding Attention Bias in ADHD: How Our Biased Brain Affects Focus and Decision Making • Pro-Innovation Bias: Why Startups Often Overestimate New Ideas and How to Think Smarter • How Hyperbolic Discounting Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases • How False Consensus Bias Shapes Marketing Decisions and Consumer Perception • How the Decoy Effect Tricks Your Brain and Biases Your Decisions • How Belief Bias Impacts Our Thinking: Examples and Insights on Cognitive Biases • How the Decoy Effect Tricks Your Brain: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Decision Making • Understanding the Belief in a Just World and Its Impact on Our Thinking • How Optimism Bias Shapes Our Thinking and Decisions • Understanding the Primacy Effect and Its Role in Cognitive Biases • Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Biased Brain in Human Cognition • Understanding Cognitive Biases in Memory Errors: Why Our Minds Trick Us • How the Bias Blind Spot Skews Your Thinking and What to Do About It • Understanding the Subadditivity Effect: Why Our Brain Adds Up Too Much • How the IKEA Effect Influences Business and Consumer Behavior • How Cognitive Biases Shape Survival Processing and Decision-Making • How the Audience Effect and Stress Impact Your Performance and Decision Making • Empathy-Altruism Theory Explained: Understanding Why We Help Others Despite Our Biased Brain • Understanding Hyperbolic Discounting and Procrastination: The Biased Brain Explains • How Optimism Bias Affects Our Risk Assessment and Decision Making • Ethical Considerations of the Placebo Effect and Cognitive Biases in Medicine • Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Its Impact on Human Decision Making • Understanding Disconfirmation Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Decisions • How Unit Bias Affects Your Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Everyday Life • Understanding Naive Realism: Why Our Biased Brains Shape Political Beliefs • How Our Biased Brain Amplifies the Effects of Misinformation • Understanding Confirmation Bias and Its Impact on Decision Making • Ingroup Bias Examples: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Everyday Choices • Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Its Impact on Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Bandwagon Effect in Economics and Human Cognition • Understanding the Ben Franklin Effect and How Cognitive Biases Shape Human Feelings • How Effort Justification Reveals the Power of Cognitive Biases in Our Minds • Understanding the Curse of Knowledge: How Cognitive Biases Shape What We Know • Misinformation Effect vs False Memory: Unpacking Memory Biases and Human Cognition • Understanding the Backfire Effect: How Cognitive Biases Fuel Misinformation • Solutions to the Misinformation Effect: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Improving Memory • The Perseverance Effect: Why Our Biased Brain Clings to Old Beliefs • What Causes Cognitive Dissonance and How It Affects Your Mind • Understanding the Curse of Knowledge and Its Impact on Human Cognition • Exploring the Reminiscence Bump: How Our Biased Brain Remembers Youth • Understanding Dispositional Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Communication • Understanding Outcome Bias in Education: Why Results Aren't Everything • How Dispositional Bias Shapes Our Judgments and What to Do About It • Understanding Hindsight Bias and Confirmation Bias in Human Cognition • How Third-Person Effect Case Studies Reveal Our Biased Brain • Why Do We Remember Our Youth? The Science of the Reminiscence Bump and Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Empathy Gap: How Cognitive Biases Shape Human Connection • Why We Think Others Are More Influenced: The Third-Person Effect Explained • How the Placebo Effect Shows the Power of Our Biased Brain • Understanding Trait Ascription Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Perceptions of Self and Others • Why Our Biased Brain Causes Us to Underestimate Time: Understanding the Planning Fallacy • Understanding the Bystander Effect: Human Cognition and Cognitive Biases in Action • How Salience Bias Shapes Your Shopping Habits and Decisions • Understanding Survivorship Bias and Its Impact on Decision Making • Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Our Decisions • How Reactive Devaluation Shapes Our Biases and Decisions • Understanding the Framing Effect: How Bias Shapes Your Decisions • The Reminiscence Bump: Why Our Teenage Memories Stand Out in Human Cognition • Overcoming the Empathy Gap: How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Understanding • How Anchoring Bias Shapes Our Decisions: Understanding Cognitive Biases and the Biased Brain • Understanding Reactive Devaluation: How Cognitive Biases Affect Our Judgments • Hyperbolic Discounting Explained: How Our Biased Brain Chooses Now Over Later • Understanding the Empathy Gap and Its Impact on Cognitive Biases • Exploring the Ben Franklin Effect: How Doing Favors Changes Your Mind • Effort Justification Explained: Why We Value Hard Work More Than We Think • How the Fading Affect Bias Shapes Our Memories and Emotions • Closing the Empathy Gap: Understanding Cognitive Biases and Human Connection • How Naive Realism Explains Our Biased Brain and Bias in Decision Making • Understanding the Backfire Effect: How the Biased Brain Strengthens Our Beliefs • How the Audience Effect in Sports Reveals Our Biased Brain and Decision Making • Understanding the Spotlight Effect: Why You’re Not Always in the Social Spotlight • How the IKEA Effect Reveals Biases in Our Brain and Decision Making • Understanding the Clustering Illusion: How Our Biased Brain Sees Fake Patterns • Understanding Negativity Bias: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Our Thoughts • Pro-Innovation Bias in Technology: Why We Love New Gadgets Too Much • How Belief Bias Affects Critical Thinking and Decision Making • Understanding Survivorship Bias: How Our Biased Brain Skews Success Stories • Understanding Availability Heuristic and Cognitive Biases in Decision Making • Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Memories and Decisions • Understanding Implicit Associations and the Biased Brain • Overcoming Group Attribution Error: Smarter Thinking for a Biased Brain • Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: Why Early Memories Stand Out and Shape Our Minds • Naive Realism Explained: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Reality and Decision Making • How the Primacy Effect Influences Your First Impressions and Decisions • The Rhyme Reason Effect: How Catchy Rhymes Trick Your Biased Brain • How the Mere Exposure Effect Shapes Your Favorite Brands and Buyer Behavior • Understanding the Ben Franklin Effect and Cognitive Biases in Human Cognition • Understanding the Placebo Effect: How Our Biased Brain Influences Healing • Empathy Gap Explained: How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Feelings and Decisions • How Optimism Bias Shapes Our Decisions and Reality • Understanding Disconfirmation Bias and the Biased Brain in Science and Everyday Life • How Risk Compensation and Insurance Reveal Our Biased Brain • Understanding the Bystander Effect: A Look into Bias in Decision Making and Human Cognition • How Restraint Bias Influences Consumer Behavior and Our Illusion of Self-Control • The Biased Brain: Understanding Perception Bias and Its Impact on Decision Making • How the Google Effect Shapes Our Biased Brain and Memory • How Choice Overload Hijacks Your Brain and Decision Making • Understanding the Fair World Assumption: How Our Biased Brain Sees Justice • How Status Quo Bias Sabotages Better Decisions: Real Case Studies on Cognitive Biases • Understanding the Reminiscence Bump: Why Our Youthful Memories Stand Out • How the Google Effect Changes Your Memory and Thinking • Backfire Effect vs Confirmation Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Decision Making • How the Decoy Effect Tricks Your Biased Brain in Decision Making • How the Placebo Effect Shapes Depression Treatment and Your Biased Brain • Overcoming the Spotlight Effect: Understanding Cognitive Biases in Public Speaking • Combating Optimism Bias: Understanding Cognitive Biases for Better Decision Making • How Disconfirmation Bias Shapes Our Thinking and Decisions • Cognitive Biases and Moral Reasoning: How Our Brains Shape Right and Wrong • Salience Bias and Other Cognitive Biases: Understanding How Our Biased Brain Shapes Decisions • Salience Bias in Media: How Our Brains Get Drawn to the Most Noticeable Stories • How Cognitive Biases Shape Our Memory and Perception • How Confirmation Bias Shapes Our Media Consumption and Decision Making • Understanding Overconfidence Bias: How Our Minds Trick Us in Decision Making • Understanding False Consensus and Other Cognitive Biases in Human Cognition • Understanding the Cross-Race Effect: How Our Biased Brain Shapes Face Recognition • How to Spot Overconfidence Bias and Outsmart Your Biased Brain • 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 •