Cognitive Biases & Decision-Making
Cognitive biases are recurring tendencies in attention, interpretation, memory, and judgment. This hub connects PsychOS explainers and experiments about confirmation bias, dissonance, decision-making, misinformation, and related effects.
Psychology Articles
- Confirmation Bias Explained: Why You Only See What You Expect
- Decision Fatigue Explained: The Real Story Behind a Famous Study
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explained: What the Research Actually Found
- The Halo Effect Explained: Why One Good Trait Blinds Us to Everything Else
- The Science of Self-Deception: Why Your Brain Lies to Protect Your Ego
- The Spotlight Effect: Why Nobody's Watching You as Closely as You Think
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy Explained: Why We Throw Good Time After Bad
- The Terrifying Psychology of Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos
- Trauma Bonding: Why You Can't Leave Someone Who Hurts You
- Why Smart People Get Imposter Syndrome (And Average People Don't)
- Why You Defend People Who Hurt You — It's Not Love. It's Your Nervous System
Classic Experiments
- The $1 Lie Experiment Explained: Why Smaller Rewards Change Beliefs More
- The Misinformation Effect Explained: How a Single Word Can Rewrite a Memory
- The Phineas Gage Case Study Explained: The Accident That Revealed Personality Lives in the Brain
- The Rosenhan Experiment Explained: Sane People, Insane Places
- The Split-Brain Experiments Explained: What Happens When the Two Hemispheres Can't Talk