Further reading:

·      The btrmt. article that inspired this

·      Confirmation bias is all there is — fundamental beliefs and belief-consistent processing

·      Bias vs Bias — heuristics vs biases, and why the distinction matters

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

·      Stress is Good (Lecture 1) — the stress lecture

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

·      Everything is Ideology — why biases are adaptive

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

References:

·      Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

·      List of cognitive biases (Wikipedia) — the 200+ biases

·      Rational-actor model (Wikipedia)

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

·      Oeberst & Imhoff (2023): Toward Parsimony in Bias Research — the fundamental beliefs paper

·      Robert Axelrod’s iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournaments

·      Bias–variance tradeoff (Wikipedia)

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