{"id":7510,"date":"2018-08-15T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2018-08-15T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T09:27:08","slug":"cognitive-biases-and-the-human-brain-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/cognitive-biases-and-the-human-brain-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<section id=\"article-section-7\">project.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad-boxinjector-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4624\/TheAtlanticOnline\/channel_science_8__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4624\/TheAtlanticOnline\/channel_science_8\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-29\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"article-section-8\">I met with Kahneman at a Le Pain Quotidien in Lower Manhattan. He is tall, soft-spoken, and affable, with a pronounced accent and a wry smile. Over an apple pastry and tea with milk, he told me, \u201cTemperament has a lot to do with my position. You won\u2019t find anyone more pessimistic than I am.\u201d<br \/>\nIn this context, his pessimism relates, first, to the impossibility of effecting any changes to System 1\u2014the quick-thinking part of our brain and the one that makes mistaken judgments tantamount to the M\u00fcller-Lyer line illusion. \u201cI see the picture as unequal lines,\u201d he said. \u201cThe goal is not to trust what I think I see. To understand that I shouldn\u2019t believe my lying eyes.\u201d That\u2019s doable with the optical illusion, he said, but extremely difficult with real-world cognitive biases.<br \/>\nThe most effective check against them, as Kahneman says, is from the outside: Others can perceive our errors more readily than we can. And \u201cslow-thinking organizations,\u201d as he puts it, can institute policies that include the monitoring of individual decisions and predictions. They can also require procedures such as checklists and \u201cpremortems,\u201d an idea and term thought up by Gary Klein, a cognitive psychologist. A premortem attempts to counter optimism bias by requiring team members to imagine that a project has gone very, very badly and write a sentence or two describing how that happened. Conducting this exercise, it turns out, helps people think ahead.<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/09\/cognitive-bias\/565775\/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>project.\u201d I met with Kahneman at a Le Pain Quotidien in Lower Manhattan. He is tall, soft-spoken, and affable, with a pronounced accent and a wry smile. Over an apple pastry and tea with milk, he told me, \u201cTemperament has a lot to do with my position. You won\u2019t find anyone more pessimistic than I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/15\/cognitive-biases-and-the-human-brain-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognitive Biases and the Human Brain &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}