Name: The Focusing Effect by David Dylan Thomas in BE- David dylan
Duration: 8 min 25 s
Description: This week, a bias so powerful you can't even pay people not to do it.

BE- David dylan

This week, a bias so powerful you can't even pay people not to do it.

Cognitive Bias Podcast Season One

The Focusing Effect

Why do we keep doing the thing even when it's no longer worth doing the thing?

Irrational Escalation

We react to low probability events as if they had a really high probability because our brains can't do math good.

Neglect of Probability

Does simply seeing something over and over make you like it more? Generally speaking, yes. Even if you have no idea what it is.

Cognitige Bias Podcast

Mere Exposure Effect

It always takes longer to get things done than we think it will, even when we've done those exact same things before.

Planning Fallacy

Special guest Kevin Smokler, author of "Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to 80's Teen Movies", joins Dave to talk about why we remember stuff (including movies) from the ages of 10-30 better than any other time.

Reminiscence Bump

The Cognitive Bias podcast explores the world of things we do that don't make any rational sense, one bias at a time.