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Cognitive Biases

How to Evaluate Unconscious Bias Caused by Cognitive Biases at Work

To address unconscious cognitive biases in your workplace, you need to evaluate thoroughly their impact on your own professional activities, as well as more broadly in your team and organization, and make and implement a plan to address the problem.
Man yelling at another man for failure in implementing decisions

8 Key Steps to Prevent Failure in Implementing Decisions or in Managing Projects and...

To prevent a project or process disaster, imagine that it completely failed. Then, brainstorm all plausible reasons for failure, and generate solutions to these potential problems. Integrate these solutions into your project or process. To maximize project or process success, envision that it succeeded spectacularly. Brainstorm likely reasons for such success, and generate strategies that would lead to such success. Integrate these strategies into your project or process.

The Pro-Truth Pledge prompts truthful behavior, according to psychology studies

  Traditionally,  identifying truth in politics comes from mainstream media and its fact checking. A recent Gallup poll, however, showed that only 29 percent of...

When Should You Go With Your Gut in Business Relationships?

Caption: Business professional holding stomach (HansMartinPaul/Pixabay) Let’s say you’re interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. She says all...

(Dis)Trust in Science: What Can We Do About the Scourge of Misinformation?

Caption: Woman looking at homeopathic medicine (Wikimedia Commons) At least 10 US children died and over 400 were sickened after taking homeopathic teething medicine laced...
Caption: Photo of Starbucks coffee store sign

Does the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training Go Against Human Nature?

                  Caption: Photo of Starbucks coffee store sign (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)   On May 29, over 8,000 Starbucks stores across the US closed their doors for...

How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science

  Caption: Sad business woman (pxhere)   Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal led to a massive fall in the Facebook’s stock price, governments around the world...
Goal Achievement

Winning At Life…By Not Losing

Caption: photo of woman playing tennis (Skeeze/Pixabay)   by Peter Livingstone   After hearing several references to a 1973 book called Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Player by...
Truth Seekers Hand Book

The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide

How do you know whether something is true? How do you convince others to believe the facts? Research shows that the human mind is...
Infant being held by his mother while receiving an intramuscular vaccination in his left thigh muscle

The Deadly Cost of Censoring the CDC

Caption: Photo of baby getting vaccinated (James Gathany, Judy Schmidt, USCDCP/Pixnio) Do you want your medical treatment to be based on science? The Trump administration...