S1-210 – The catalogue of cognitive fallacies
How the mind systematically misleads itself In the spring of 1972, the psychologist Amos Tversky invited… Read more
S1-206 – A myriad of maps
How we hold many contradictory models at once In 1956, the social psychologist Leon Festinger published… Read more
S1-205 -The Dunning-Kruger effect
What the famous finding actually claims, why much of it may be a statistical mirage, and… Read more
S1-203 – Maps, models, and metaphors
The tools we think with There is a map of London’s Underground railway that has been… Read more
S1-202 – The 7 plus or minus 2 problem
Why the brain is always compressing In the summer of 1956, the cognitive psychologist George Miller… Read more