{"id":345,"date":"2011-07-26T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:44:34","slug":"and-the-list-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"And the list goes on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cog-distor-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-347\" title=\"cog distor 2\" src=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cog-distor-2-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been researching a new public seminar on overcoming disabling thoughts. A lot of problems arise from our cognitive distortions and biases, so I typed &#8220;cognitive bias&#8221; into the search box on Wikipedia. Wow! I hit the jackpot: Wiki lists over 100+ forms of cognitive bias!! And that doesn&#8217;t include those <em>perceptual<\/em> brain teasers like the classic one here [which horizontal line is longer?].<\/p>\n<p>Think about this: over one hundred ways that we skew and distort events in the world behind our eyes. Some involve our behavior and decision-making, like <!--more-->over-relying on a single piece of data or seeing ourselves as less biased than the people we eat lunch with. Some have a magical quality, like the hindsight or &#8220;I knew it all along&#8221; effect or the clustering illusion where we see patterns that don&#8217;t exist. Several are social, like the Lake Wobegon effect, aka the <em>illusory superiority<\/em> bias, and the Forer or Barnum [&#8220;We&#8217;ve got something for everyone&#8221;] effect, which you might know from reading and believing your daily horoscope. And then there are those wonderful memory biases, like &#8220;rosy retrospection&#8221; and the self-serving and egocentric biases.<\/p>\n<p>So if you think you have a firm grip on &#8220;reality,&#8221; take a stroll through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_biases\" target=\"_blank\">the Wikipedia list<\/a>. Then make your own list: what are the biases you&#8217;re prone to? What biases do you see in your friends and colleagues? For double the fun, ask your spouse or best friend to read both lists and comment.<\/p>\n<p>Then watch your response &#8230; and see what new biases arise.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yea. The horizontal lines are the same length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching a new public seminar on overcoming disabling thoughts. A lot of problems arise from our cognitive distortions and biases, so I typed &#8220;cognitive bias&#8221; into the search box on Wikipedia. Wow! I hit the jackpot: Wiki lists over 100+ forms of cognitive bias!! And that doesn&#8217;t include those perceptual brain teasers like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-leading","category-self-awareness","category-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}