Why Are We Biased? Part I

This episode features:


-Why men perceive more sexuality in women’s behavior than women
say they intend


-Several opportunities to test your own biases


-Examples of how both evolutionary psychologists and social
psychologists have explained bias the wrong way


-Why it’s unsatisfactory to say that we have false beliefs in
order to “make ourselves feel good”


-Why do people ignore basic probability theory


-Why are people bad at abstract logic


-How to make people much better at logic problems


-An explanation of the famous “Linda Problem”


 


Full transcript


 


-References-


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Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2000). No
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Haselton, M. G., & Buss, D. M. (2000). Error management
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Haselton, M. G., Nettle, D., & Murray, D. R. (2015). The
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Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. London: Penguin
Books.


Perilloux, C., & Kurzban, R. (2015). Do men overperceive
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Positive Illusions Wikipedia


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Carroll, S. M. (2018). Why Is There Something, Rather Than
Nothing?. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02231.