Twenty Cognitive Biases That Could Be Helping You Make Bad Decisions

[Jim O'Bryan]

From IFL Science, a reprint from Business Insider...

"The human mind is a beautiful thing. Our ability to perceive, manage and express our individual experiences has been a huge reason for our success as a species. However, let’s not get too narcissistic. As rational as we like to think we are, our brain is riddled with ingrained patterns of thought which can lead us to be very irrational."

Read the rest here:
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/20-cognitive-biases-which-make-you-form-bad-decisions

[Brian Essi]

Good post. A good read on this is "A General Theory of Love" Lewis.

Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. The result is an original, lucid, at times moving account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being.


http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375709223/?ta ... u8ya5kbv_b