Critical thinking

2021-10-24 00:28:14 Identifiable Victim Effect
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The identifiable victim effect describes the likelihood that we feel greater empathy, and an urge to help, in situations where tragedies are about a specific, identifiable individual, compared to situations where the victims are a larger, vaguer group of people.

Joseph Stalin, the former Premier of the Soviet Union, is often attributed to have introduced the idea of the identifiable victim effect when he made the statement:

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: thedecisionlab.com Open / Comment

2021-08-05 23:53:57 Overconfidence phenomenon
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The phenomenon occurs when people's confidence in their abilities is greater than their accuracy. In other words, people are more confident in their judgment than they are correct

For example, at work, people assume themselves to be better than most others. Due to this overconfidence, the need to learn and improve seems unnecessary. Over a while, employees stagnate at what they do. This leads to lower annual raises, lack of promotions or even layoffs. In such scenarios, people blame their organization or their bosses but never themselves.


Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: verywellmind.com Open / Comment

2021-07-08 18:06:25 Hi subscribers!

I often receive messages where you ask me to recommend books or other resources regarding psychology and critical thinking.

I decided to post recommendations on this channel which you will be able to find under #Books tag

The first author I would like you to recommend is Daniel Khaneman. He is an Israeli psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

He has written a book (which you probably already heard about) Thinking, Fast and Slow. This book is really mustread for everybody interested in cognitive biases.

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2021-06-18 10:48:58 The Bizarreness Effect
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People show better memory for bizarre sentences relative to common sentences, a finding referred to as the bizarrness effect.

Interestingly, this effect is typically only obtained using a mixed-list design, in which participants study common and bizarre sentences in the same list.

Participants studied common sentences in one room under one set of instructions, and bizarre sentences in another room under another set of instructions. At test, participants recalled the common and bizarre sentences either together or separately.

The results showed that the bizarreness effect was only obtained when participants recalled the common and bizarre items together

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: link.springer.com Open / Comment

2021-04-15 15:51:26 Representativeness Heuristic
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The representativeness heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of an event by comparing it to an existing prototype that already exists in our minds. This prototype is what we think is the most relevant or typical example of a particular event or object. The problem with this is that people often overestimate the similarity between the two things they are comparing.

When making decisions or judgments, we often use mental shortcuts or "rules of thumb" known as heuristics. For every decision, we don't always have the time or resources to compare all the information before we make a choice, so we use heuristics to help us reach decisions quickly and efficiently

Representativeness can affect the judgments we make when meeting new people. It may lead us to form inaccurate impressions of others, such as misjudging a new acquaintance or blind date

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: verywellmind.com Open / Comment

2021-03-25 21:41:11 Critical thinking pinned «​Congratulations! (reading time – 30 sec.) it’s been two years since Raid - mobile RPG burst onto the scene and completely took over mobile gaming. Raid is the only game where you can test your critical thinking while building strategies of defeating your…» Open / Comment

2021-03-25 21:41:06 ​Congratulations!
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2021-03-07 20:11:39 Telescoping Effect
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The telescoping effect refers to inaccurate perceptions regarding time, where people see recent events as more remote than they are (backward telescoping), and remote events as more recent (forward telescoping). This mental error in memory can occur whenever we make temporal assumptions regarding past events.

It seems every year, on September 11, people remark how 9/11 seems like it wasn’t that long ago, and are surprised to hear the media highlight the number of years that have actually passed since the tragedy. Conversely, a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic and one might feel a lot more time has passed than it has. Instances of forward telescoping however, such as the case with 9/11, are more common than backward telescoping.1

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: thedecisionlab.com Open / Comment