200 cognitive biases catalogued on Wikipedia, and the message is clear:

your brain is broken, and if you could just think more rationally, you’d

make better decisions. But when researchers actually tested whether

knowledge of biases helped predict behaviour, the experts did worse than

random laypeople. Maybe the problem isn’t bias. Maybe the problem is

what we think bias is.

Further reading

article that inspired this

bias is all there is — fundamental beliefs and belief-consistent

processing

heuristics vs biases, and why the distinction matters

and the Yerkes-Dodson Law — bias vs noise in the stress

response

Good (Lecture 1) — the stress lecture

Amygdala is Not the Fear Centre (Lecture 2) — the amygdala

lecture

is Ideology — why biases are adaptive

Neuroscience is Just a Fancy Way of Saying “Calm Down”

References

Fast and Slow (2011)

cognitive biases (Wikipedia) — the 200+ biases

model (Wikipedia)

al. (2021): Megastudy on behavioural nudges for vaccination

& Imhoff (2023): Toward Parsimony in Bias Research — the

fundamental beliefs paper

Axelrod’s iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournaments

tradeoff (Wikipedia)