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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

QAspire

The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 which quite simply means “our tendency to filter information, process facts and arrive at judgments based on our past experiences, likes/dislikes and automatic influences.”. This was a good opportunity to get back to the topic and add to my understanding.

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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

The idea of cognitive biases was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s. Tversky and Kahneman also showed that they could predict quite accurately when people would act irrationally, because the irrational behavior was due to measurable cognitive biases.

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Do you fit the management stereotype?

Chartered Management Institute

Probably the best known experiment into representativeness heuristics was conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 70's. Most of the time they're quite useful but every now and then they can trip us up, so it pays to be aware of them. As it's Friday, and I'm a fun kinda guy, why don't you play along?

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Decision Bias

CO2

First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known. It was presented in a paper at Monash University titled A Taxonomy of Decision Biases by David Arnott.

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Decision Bias

CO2

First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known. It was presented in a paper at Monash University titled A Taxonomy of Decision Biases by David Arnott.

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A Cognitive Trick for Solving Problems Creatively

Harvard Business Review

The role of thinking processes in decision making was made prominent by Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky , whose Nobel Prize–winning research argues that economic decision makers are subject to deeply held cognitive biases. The anchoring bias, for example, helps people respond to change more quickly.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

The basic concept , first presented by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and his partner Amos Tversky in an influential 1979 paper, is that human beings are astonishingly bad at estimating how long it will take to complete tasks.