Collection of Daniel Kahneman videos
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12185
Heuristics guiding our decision-making
From Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking: Fast and Slow:
- Affect heuristic: “where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.” (p 12)
What are the common cognitive biases and logic fallacies I probably suffer from without realizing?
Answer: There are heaps of these — maybe a hundred or so? Watch these videos to learn about some of them.
A fun song introduction to the common cognitive biases:
This video uses someone’s short speech to illustrate several common biases:
This video explains how we are biased towards seeing patterns and order where none exists:
This video explains how we are biased towards living in the pleasurable present rather than working towards a sensible future: