86. Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2016-02-24

Human thought has hundreds of hard-wired bugs. The Socratic Method  gives us a fighting chance to overcome them.

-Links for the Curious- 

Paper describing evidence & several implications of availability bias - http://people.umass.edu/biep540w/pdf/Tversky%20availability.pdf 

Paper describing evidence & several implications of confirmation bias - http://landman-psychology.com/ConfirmationBias.pdf

Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

THUNK episode 73 on mental rigor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3uDwNUVieQ

THUNK episode 64 on the argumentative theory of human reason - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cduyyif7BVY