How to improve your daily decision making: Top 4 cognitive biases you should avoid 

Can you make more videos about biases? Understanding them is really useful.

I've been saying it for years, cognative bias and understanding the thinking process should be thought in schools.

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Thank you for examining published research, and trying to find the highest quality research out there.

Watching this video was such a success. Best 5 minutes I’ve spent all day.

Wow, this is really good.The Sunk Cost Fallacy really rings true to me.

When the "sunk cost fallacy" was being discussed, it reminded me of a time when a critic received backlash for giving a book - that s/he didn't finish reading - a bad review. However, as a response, the critic said something like "if I eat a rotten egg, I don't need to finish eating it to know that it's rotten".

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I love your videos. I found so many of your videos extremely helpful. Thank you. Please keep this up.

The bias 2 and 4 are connect with the idea of questioning. However, in a different context! Amazing video! Congratulations!

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Thanks a lot for these lovely, well created , thoughtful videos, they are very helpful, and thanks for all the effort you put on them, your work is really appreciated and magnificent.

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Had to watch this video again. Pure gold.

i don't know why but I love his voice and the way he speaks.. it inspires me to speak the same way.

Thanks so much. I was touched by the confirmation bias number. Will read up more. Thanks again.

Fantastic video, as always!

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Great work! Thank you

Absolutely love social psychology and I like the way you relate psychology to real life scenarios :) Admittedly I've committed some of these biases at times even when I knew them, but I'm working on it XD

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This was very fascinating…it led me into an interesting merry-go-round of circular reasoning. Applying the principles in this video to assess the video, I came up with the question, why should I avoid all bias? If I know I’m right about something, having found truth, shouldn’t I relentlessly maintain my bias toward that truth? Just because you’ve framed the issue that biases are ‘bad’ (in your opinion), should I try to find evidence to support that assertion or should I search for contradictory evidence? I finally decided that just because this video was easy to watch, that didn’t make it true - if it sounded good, I should question it; and that I should remember the sunk cost fallacy and not watch any more, having only lost five minutes on this one.

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Excellent info, quick and to the point news I can use... except Acupuncture does work.

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Great stuff. I feel like this content creator has read the books: Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow and, How to Influence People and Win Friends.

Started at Reddit, ended up with a new RU-vid subscription. Very informative and thought provoking!

Very Good. Please do more videos on other biases.

Nice video.

You start to talk about #5 "anchoring" under the confirmation bias. "Are you HAPPY with your social life?" vs. "Are you UNhappy with your social life?"

As a person with social anxiety and very low self esteem, my bias is the opposite of self-serving: whenever something goes right it was because of external factors that helped me, and whenever something goes wrong, it's my fault even if it's clear that there were issues involved that I couldn't control. So I think that bias isn't about protecting your self esteem as much as it is about confirming the idea you have of yourself, even if it's actually making your self esteem worse.

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Cool i was already doing your last tip with searching for the opposite of what i think like "why earth is flat" i search for

I've noticed that most scientists exhibit a confirmation bias towards negative aspects of life. Although, it is the job of a scientist to be honest and tell the facts as it is, it is also important that they take care to not adopt an overly negative world view which could be detrimental to their own psychological health. Facts are facts, but as a person, it is important to believe in oneself and learn to ignore the facts sometimes in order to lead a healthy, positive and happy life !

I already do the reverse google think. I feel smart now.

Wish I had some more self-serving bias and some close friends! I usually blame myself for failure and don't attribute successes to myself. How to get rid of self-blaming bias please?

I liked the other song better, but still great video

Cognitive biases are how the natural mind of sinful man operates! Wow! It just hit me! Those who are still in sin need the biases functioning for them to survive their own stupidity until they meet Jesus, and give their lives to Him, thus taking one's first step into any actual knowledge, which the fear of the Lord is the beginning of. The first one keeps life from totally crushing you, until you are strong enough to learn from your mistakes. Then, you do not have to appear good in all things, because even the bad things become mere learning experiences taking me to better places.

Protecting your self esteem is part of your survival mechanism it's nature

All four of these are probably less pronounced in those of us who are deeply depressed. 1) We don't think we are performing very well, 2) we don't believe in easy answers, 3) we believe we have screwed everything up so badly that a little more doesn't matter, and 4) we automatically look for what will go wrong from here. I'm not arguing that we don't have equally poor cognitive biases but simply that they are different ones.

Although i am very hard working i lack decesion making capability, i am worried

4:00 Taking a big philosophy question as an example for irrational decision biases is not really suitable Nevertheless the video was helpful, thanks!

13% of people are with me!

so no.1 self serving bias is the only good for ourself?

I can see Cognitive Fluency bias is applied with your channel's name ;)

Regarding "3. Sunk Cost Fallacy", I used to fall for it all the time. Now I throw away that bag of chips and coke when my rational self starts reminding me of the negative affects it has on my health. I seriously throw it away. The money is already lost but I'm not letting it affect my health.

Thinking Fast and slow Daniel Kahnehman

"if the glove don't fit, you must acquit"

weird.....the forth tip does the opposite for me. If asked if I'm happy with my social life Iook for unhappy memories and visa versa

My parents didn't stay together, because they fought that it would get any better. They stayed together expecting the other to appologise for making them suffer that long and leave... (and giving up now would mean that they suffered in vain)

my bias almost didn't let me click on this

u may believe logic overrides spirituality, however, spirituality is the core of human existence. how old are you? do you even have the life experience to make the statments you make or did read these beliefs in a textbook?

I agree with the first, second and the fourth bias. However, in my personal experience I've come to see that 'sunk cost fallacy' isn't always a bad thing. My experience is based on a few projects I've undertaken. But lets just consider your example about a bad relationship. If you've been in a relationship for years and invested a lot time and effort, its a pretty good idea to hold on to the relationship even though the chances are bleak because humans are usually faced with situations that are highly unpredictable. So even though the chances are slim, you can focus on this future situation to improve your relationship. This is well within the context of your "FOCUS ON FUTURE COSTS AND BENEFITS" advice. Amazing video. Would love to see more where that came from.

i don't really hear voices they affect me telepathically or message wise -- my thing i can not get the past outta my head like i feel my step mothers relative r sitting in a switch board and control my mind i don't really hear what they say but nonetheless their messages r clear they usually humiliate laugh at me it is like a security camera in my head controlling my thoughts also when i am on the street i feel i am brain wired to every one else and that others r thinking about me controlling me and hate me every body is in my head i can not get them at at night i feel ego shattered like even walking down a street even some one looking at me coldly this leaves me crushed and shattered --i misunderstand and misjudge every thing and can never decode or process information or behavior same with language i --also i don't know who i am like i feel i don't exit i am an ego conscious version of my step mothers relatives i feel i have died and now i am just a hologram i don't feel real or alive i feel i am divided my identity compromised of many many people when i look at a thing i feel those people in my head r looking at this thing with me--i wonder the person talking to me can see those guys in my head most the time i think they do i feel they have a packt to fuck me up i feel the whole universe and god hates me i feel so evil worthless and bad worthy of death i feel i am a worthless bug not human at all --am i schizophrenic ???

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I think that I have a bias for your videos.. yet again, I have a bias towards understanding how individuals behave both in private and public.

People are good, but can be evil. It's the only way to look at it.

The music in this video is so simple and bland that it became funny when he said "If you liked the music in this video". It did it's job I suppose but I doubt the guys own matereial sounds anything like this.

And I thought I would go to purgatory...

While you said that 87% of people thought that they would go to heaven, I'm more curious about the 13% that say they're going to hell.

South African accent?

So before I comment "nice video", I should google why this video is bad, right?

love isnt rational. love isnt about cost/benefit; business is. love is about life, sharing something, caring, suffering with the other. otherwise marriage is just a businesscontract and shouldnt be associated with love. dangerous bite of psychology, before you know it people will end otherwise beautifull relationships because "she s not pulling his weight", "he doesnt satisfy me", "she doesnt make enough money" and such... issue? talk. losing interest? be honest. sex is boring? talk, try, care for the other, practice. that s bitesize love advice: be open and honest

0:42 That isn't delusional. Mother Teresa was a horrible person. Watch "Hell's Angel" by Christopher Hitchens.

confirmation bias explains global warming hysteria.

When you search up a league of legends tips and trick video and get this

Who will go to heaven? Very few, dammit... We are all supposed to go to hell.

0:41 "...this delusional" - lol... as if it was some sort of objective fact, that Mother Theresa would go to - oh well: a place that doesn't exist anyway... nevermind! - just go on with your mindless babble, while I tune off :D

Religion is one form of confirmation bias. I agree

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I think it is a little contradictory to have a video like this when you have another one defending the idea of free will being an illusion. in fact, all the other videos that you have related to self improvement seem pointless if the one about the absence of free will holds true. I don't mean this as a criticism, but simply I don't see the sense of anything in the absence of free will, whether that is true or not.(Idk) bitesizepsych

the self-serving bias is funny cause determinism... you are not making *any* choices we are all DNA and environmental inputs. So guys turns out you are super deep and rad. We are all just meat-robots. drop that ho with a quickness.

If the movie's trash, I don't need to leave the theatre - I just take a refreshing nap ^^ The point is, that napping for the rest of an unhappy relationship is not possible... tehehe

None of us can make it to heaven by doing less comparing to what god wants

Mother Theresa was not a good person.

That's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back. A few good points here and there but this is mostly psycho-babble. Additionally, the narrator makes a lot of bias assumptions himself. Rule #1 never trust a narrator with an English accent.

shame the music overrides the audio, why is this...?

how is mother Teresa not going to heaven?? who would say that? lol

Bill Clinton would make it to heaven?

Why is thinking that "I will go to heaven" disillusional??? You don't have to be famous like Mother Theresa to go to heaven! you can lead a quiet life and in spite of that qualify for heaven.

i hate the music of this video

You made a fatal mistake at the very beginning of the video. Poor choices are going to depend on who you talk to. You can be very successful in business but made poor choices to get there, such as exploit people. Now you have achieved success at the cost of others but was that a poor choice, depends who you ask. Second lose money, how do you define lose money? Is it spending it and having nothing to show for it? Or not making enough to begin with? How do you measure this? You have made a lot of assumptions and used your own bias while making this video.

Why people believe in religion in a nut shell.