More than a billion people use Google Maps to help them navigate their world every month. If you own a smartphone, the odds ...

Cognitive biases can have a negative impact on an investor’s ability to make rational decisions, potentially derailing their ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions ...

Cognitive scientists see motivated reasoning as a force that operates in many domains. Studies by political psychologists highlight denial of climate change or discrediting its science as ...

The frequency illusion, also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is a cognitive bias in which someone learns a novel word or concept—and then “suddenly” encounters it everywhere ...