Why do we make bad decisions? How do we fool ourselves? Test your knowledge of the mental shortcuts, blind spots, and reasoning errors that affect us all.
Explore the cognitive shortcuts and errors that affect our everyday decisions, including confirmation bias, anchoring, availability heuristic, sunk cost fallacy, gambler's fallacy, and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
20 questionsExamine how our social perceptions and judgments are shaped by biases including in-group bias, the halo effect, fundamental attribution error, stereotyping, and the bystander effect.
20 questionsDiscover how our memories can be surprisingly unreliable, exploring false memories, hindsight bias, the misinformation effect, and the peak-end rule.
20 questionsLearn to identify flawed arguments and logical fallacies including ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, slippery slope reasoning, false dichotomies, appeal to authority, and circular reasoning.
Apply your knowledge of cognitive biases and logical fallacies to practical strategies for recognizing and overcoming these mental traps in everyday thinking and decision-making.
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