Manipulation tactics that work - Irrational behaviours that don't - Prediction Fallacies we fall for.

In this episode, we dive further into our series on cognitive biases and how they cloud our judgment.

Studying applied psychology we can learn how we get manipulated by companies and start to protect ourselves from our own irrationality.

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Chapters

00:00 SECTION - Framing effects

00:01 #1 Anchoring Bias

02:54 The Opposite Strategy

04:59 #2 Framing Effect

08:06 #3 Decoy Effect

10:45 SECTION - Irrational

10:47 #4 Gambler's Fallacy

16:45 #5 Sunk Cost Fallacy

19:21 SECTION - Bad Prediction Flaws

19:55 #6 Overconfidence Bias

21:30 #7 Information Bias

25:34 Send Off

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