The Biased Brain Podcast

The Biased Brain Podcast

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast! Today, we're going to chat about something many of you have shown interest in - the career path from data analytics to data science. If you're considering making the leap or just curious about what this journey looks like, stick around. We'll break it down in a way that’s both informative and fun!

Episodes

July 21, 2025
Explore how implicit associations shape your perceptions and decisions, and learn how understanding cognitive biases can improve critical thinking.
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Learn how to reduce group attribution error and improve your critical thinking by understanding cognitive biases and human cognition better.
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Discover why we vividly remember adolescence and early adulthood through the reminiscence bump and how cognitive biases influence these memories.
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Discover naive realism—the belief our perspective is reality—and how cognitive biases affect human cognition and decisions every day.
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Explore everyday examples of the primacy effect, a cognitive bias that shapes first impressions and affects decision making in surprising ways.
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Discover how the rhyme reason effect influences trust in phrases and the role of cognitive biases in shaping human cognition and decision making.
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Discover how the mere exposure effect influences your brand preferences and decisions by tapping into our biased brain and cognitive shortcuts.
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Discover the Ben Franklin Effect’s origin and how cognitive biases shape human decision making and relationships. Learn more about your biased brain today!
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Discover how the placebo effect reveals the power of belief, cognitive biases, and human cognition in shaping health and decision-making.
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Learn how the empathy gap and other cognitive biases influence our emotions and decision making, with easy examples and insights for better critical thinking.
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Discover how optimism bias influences our mindset, decision making, and why understanding cognitive biases can improve critical thinking and reduce risks.
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Explore how disconfirmation bias influences science and everyday thinking, and learn ways to improve critical thinking and decision making.
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Discover how risk compensation influences behavior with insurance, shaped by cognitive biases and critical thinking in human decision making.
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Discover how the classic bystander effect experiments reveal cognitive biases in human decision-making and social behavior, with insights for critical thinking.
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Discover how restraint bias leads to overestimating self-control in consumer choices and learn to recognize bias in decision making for better habits.
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Explore how perception bias shapes our worldviews and decisions, and learn ways to improve critical thinking by understanding cognitive biases.
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Discover how the Google Effect impacts human cognition, memory, and critical thinking, influencing bias in decision making every day.
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Too many options can overwhelm your brain and hurt decision making. Learn about choice overload, cognitive biases, and how to think more clearly.
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Discover how the Fair World Assumption shapes our thinking and biases, influencing empathy, decisions, and critical thinking in everyday life.
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Discover how status quo bias affects decision making with real case studies. Learn to recognize this cognitive bias and improve your critical thinking skills.
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