It can feel safer to block out contradictory information that challenges a belief. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images “Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends ...

Small, subtle, instinctual biases in our heads affect our everyday decisions. Many of them are helpful: don't go into the woods alone at night. Some of them can be less helpful. The fact of the matter ...

What percentage of projects in your workplace miss the deadline or go over budget? How often do you see hiring decisions and employee performance and promotion assessments influenced by factors not ...

Unconscious biases, including implicit and cognitive biases, are pervasive in our daily lives and can significantly impact our decisions, even when we strive to be fair and objective. For workplace ...

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People who believe in conspiracy theories may be more likely to exhibit specific cognitive biases also found in individuals with subclinical delusional thinking, according to a pair of new studies ...

We like to think of ourselves as rational beings who make decisions based on data. The reality is that we are far more often subject to our brain's cognitive biases, as this clip from "The Sherpas" ...

“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that “once facts are established, opinions can be formed.” The problem is that while it sounds logical, this appealing assertion ...

Cognitive psychology and neuroscience studies have found that the exact opposite is often true when it comes to politics: People form opinions based on emotions, such as fear, contempt and anger, ...