Blind spots and biases : hidden forces that shape your decisions /
We use mental shortcuts every day to help us make decisions, and often we don't even realize it. This program explores five mental shortcuts, or "blind spots": Expectation, Belief, Availability, Anchors, and Imitation. Learn why optical illusions and magic tricks surprise us, and how...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, IL :
Learning Seed,
2010.
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| Series: | VAST: academic video online
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| Summary: | We use mental shortcuts every day to help us make decisions, and often we don't even realize it. This program explores five mental shortcuts, or "blind spots": Expectation, Belief, Availability, Anchors, and Imitation. Learn why optical illusions and magic tricks surprise us, and how our need to confirm our beliefs often prevent a cold. Understand how availability affects purchasing habits, how a bias can make a normal price seem like a great sale, and what causes laughter to be so contagious. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 9, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (24 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:24:10 |
| Participant or Performer: | Narrator: Kate Burns. |
| Language: | In English. |