Hedonic Treadmill – Why Your Happiness Is Short Lived
admin What Is The Hedonic Treadmill? The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite…
Cognitive Biases
Reward & Punishment Superresponse Tendency Bias
Reward & Punishment Superresponse Tendency Bias Number 1 Of The 25 Cognitive Biases… Under-recognition of the power of what psychologists call ‘reinforcement’ and economists call ‘incentives.’ Examples Of The Reward…
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science Of The Mind Review
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science Of The Mind The majority of people are scared away when they see a book, let alone one that looks similar to a college or…
Deprival-Superreaction Tendency Bias
We react irrationally when there’s a chance we’ll love something we had or almost had… regardless of how small or petty it is. Examples Of The Deprival-Superreaction Tendency Bias The…
Availability-Misweighing Tendency Bias
Examples Of The Availability-Misweighing Tendency Bias Bias from the non-mathematical nature of the human brain in its natural state as it deal with probabilities employing crude heuristics, and is often…
Liking/Loving Tendency Bias
Liking/Loving Tendency Bias Number 2 Of The 25 Cognitive Biases… The tendency to especially like oneself, one’s own kind and one’s own idea structures, and the tendency to be especially…
Disliking/Hating Tendency Bias
Disliking/Hating Tendency Bias Number 3 Of The 25 Cognitive Biases… Disliking distortion, bias from that, the reciprocal of liking distortion and the tendency not to learn appropriately from someone disliked.…
Twaddle Tendency Bias
Number 20 Of The 25 Cognitive Biases… The twaddle tendency is essentially the performance of time wasting activities as a result of confusion. Examples Of The Twaddle Tendency Bias Munger…
Charlie Munger’s 25 Cognitive Biases Speech Summary
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment In June, 1995 at Harvard University Charlie Munger gave to this date what is one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. I’m not talking…
Kantian Fairness Tendency Bias
Number 24 Of The 25 Cognitive Biases… We know life isn’t fair but we can’t come to terms with this truth. A small amount of unfairness can make an entire…