#cognitive biases

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The Just-World Hypothesis or Why You Believe the Universe Is Fair

Be good and good things will happen to you; be evil and you will attract misfortune. I bet you didn’t even blink while reading that because it sounds so common sense. Not so fast. It turns out that agreeing with the previous statement is a good indication that you have fallen for the just-world hypothesis,…

The Self-Serving Bias: a Hidden Impediment to Being Effective

Have you noticed how your self-esteem goes up whenever you are successful at something, no matter how little effort you put into achieving that thing and how your spirits drop whenever you experience failure, despite your best efforts and hard work to reach your goal? The reason why this happens is a predictable human thinking…