4 Mental Shortcuts That Cloud Your Judgement
These cognitive biases affect how we make decisions–and it often happens subconsciously. My Twitter: https://twitter.com/nessyhill Instagram: https://instagram.com/nessyhill SUBSCRIBE to...
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Your brain is a pretty amazing machine. It's a network of about 86 billion neurons that if compared to a computer, researchers predict is capable of more than a trillion processes every second. But… it makes mistakes. As much as we hate to admit it, we’re only human. Cognitive biases are mental shortcuts we make when we’re processing information. They’re errors in our judgement. Let’s take a closer look... For me, building anything is a labour of love...but our labour may just lead to love. The IKEA effect is the tendency to place a disproportionately high value on things you assemble yourself–think sets of lego, origami or, of course, IKEA furniture. In a series of studies where participants assembled those three things, they saw their creat...
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Your brain is a pretty amazing machine. It's a network of about 86 billion neurons that if compared to a computer, researchers predict is capable of more than a trillion processes every second. But… it makes mistakes. As much as we hate to admit it, we’re only human. Cognitive biases are mental shortcuts we make when we’re processing information. They’re errors in our judgement. Let’s take a closer look... For me, building anything is a labour of love...but our labour may just lead to love. The IKEA effect is the tendency to place a disproportionately high value on things you assemble yourself–think sets of lego, origami or, of course, IKEA furniture. In a series of studies where participants assembled those three things, they saw their creat...
