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Cognitive Biases

Your brain takes shortcuts, and they often mislead you. Find out why we misjudge risk, money and other people, and how to catch these errors before they cost you.

Cognitive Biases Library

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas

Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses

Can You Learn to be Lucky?: Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Black-and-White Thinking: The Burden of a Binary Brain in a Complex World

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success (And Why Some People Never Learn from Mistakes)

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life

Critical Thinkers: Methods for Clear Thinking and Analysis in Everyday Situations from the Greatest Thinkers in History

Cracked it!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants

Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions

Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets

Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration

Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring℠ to Build Great Teams

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management

Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard and How You Can Master Them

How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

How Highly Effective People Speak: How High Performers Use Psychology to Influence With Ease

Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel and Want

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better

May Contain Lies: How Stories, Stats, and Studies Exploit Our Biases

Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness

Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives

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