The people that are less cognitively aware & have lower levels of honesty-humility are extremist side choosers. In fact, you have to work at not simply choosing sides, because #nepotism is an evolutionary adaptation.
#Religion? Choose a side! #Politics! Which side are you on? #War? Where do your loyalties lie? Wife or Husband arguing with a stranger? Whom do you side with? regardless of whose wrong or whose right?
Challenge Your Thinking Habits
https://wp.me/p84YjG-4Ac
#CriticalThinking #MindsetMatters #CognitiveBias #PersonalGrowth #MentalHealth #SelfAwareness #BrainTraining #ThinkingSkills #MindsetShift #GrowthMindset #zsoltzsemba
https://zsoltzsemba.com/2025/02/01/challenge-your-thinking-habits-cognitive-bias-guide/
"Common sense" is what you invoke when you cannot support your beliefs with either "real arguments" or "real data."
Common sense is the noise that comes out of you when all you've got is the vague sense that you must be right--somehow?--but even *you* don't know why you think that.
Common sense is a slogan for shutting down arguments without having to know or prove anything.
Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity: Understanding MAGA and the stupidity mind virus.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=FVXy-UwJwFDDwzTA
#Bonhoeffer #psychology
#Theorofstupidity
#StupidityMindVirus #MAGA #PoliticalPsychology #CriticalThinking #SocialDynamics #PowerAndStupidity #MindManipulation #CognitiveBias #MassPsychology #PoliticalInfluence #StupidityVsEvil
#SocialImpact #PhilosophicalThought
Help! I got ranty again.
Social studies #teacher in a state where talking about "certain things" is risky. Sign up for my Classroom Website. I will be posting on topics that teachers in right-wing states might hesitate to cover. This post covers #cognitivebias in political campaigns in a non-partisan way. Just as I would address the issue in class. #election https://mrandosciasclassroom.net/2024/09/12/on-political-finger-pointing-and-cognitive-bias/
First impression bias in #scicomm: greater interest, engagement, and better memorization for scientific info shared with visuals; when aesthetic qualities matter even to communicate within the scientific community 
A brief, #fun and #interesting video about #cognitivebias and the pursuit of better understanding.
Exploring Social Loafing in Human-Computer Teams (8min)
Humans may overtrust and become complacent with AI teammates over time, leading to automation bias, overtrust of AI capabilities, and reduced human diligence, aka less quality in the task accomplished. By Dr Maria Panagiotidi
https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/exploring-social-loafing-in-human
#Psychology #CognitiveBias
https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/exploring-social-loafing-in-human
This is a really good paper about, why you hear so often that the "kids these days" are so much worse than earlier generations. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aav5916
They identify 2 main reasons
"A person-specific tendency to notice the limitations of others where one excels and a memory bias projecting one’s current qualities onto the youth of the past. When observing current children, we compare our biased memory to the present and a decline appears."
#memoryBias #cognitiveBias #kids 1/2
