In my last two entries on this site, I discussed biases and heuristics. I wrote about them separately because I had plenty to say about both, which, for anyone who knows me, is not a surprise. What I ...

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. –John Steinbeck on letting go of unwanted anchors Heuristics are mental shortcuts that allow people to make ...

Cognitive shortcuts (or heuristics) and their consequent psychological and behavioural biases can profoundly affect and shape the judgments and decisions we make in our everyday and professional lives ...

While humans often consider themselves superior to other beings on Earth, this status in the animal kingdom has its drawbacks. Our capacity for complex thought also means we are uniquely skilled at ...

If a prior patient had complications in one childbirth delivery mode, a physician may be more likely to switch to the other—and likely inappropriate—delivery mode for the subsequent patient, a new ...

In a world where things move a mile a minute, our brains are often tasked with processing large amounts of information within limited windows of time. When work requires that we multitask, under ...

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” So wrote Anais Nin, rather succinctly describing the unfortunate melange of biases that accompany these otherwise perfectly well-functioning ...