8 Sesgos Cognitivos Que Están Secretamente Dirigiendo Tu Vida

About this video

• Video Title: 8 Sesgos Cognitivos Que Están Secretamente Dirigiendo Tu Vida
• Channel: Porqués Extraños
• Speakers: None specified
• Duration: 25:03

Overview

This video explores eight cognitive biases that influence human decision-making. It explains each bias with examples and offers strategies to mitigate their impact. The goal is to help viewers become more aware of these mental shortcuts and make more rational choices.

Key takeaways

• Anchoring Bias: The tendency to rely heavily on the first piece of information encountered. This can influence negotiations, legal judgments, and medical diagnoses.
• Availability Heuristic: Overestimating the likelihood of events that are easily recalled due to their vividness or emotional impact, often amplified by media coverage.
• Bandwagon Effect: Adopting beliefs or behaviors simply because many other people are doing so, driven by a need for social conformity.
• Outcome Bias: Judging the quality of a decision based solely on its result, rather than the process behind it, which can reinforce bad decisions.
• Survivorship Bias: Focusing on successful individuals or outcomes while ignoring failures, leading to an incomplete and overly optimistic view of risk and success.
• Halo Effect: Allowing a positive impression in one area to positively influence perceptions in unrelated areas. The "horn effect" is its negative counterpart.
• Fundamental Attribution Error: Overemphasizing personality-based explanations for others' behavior while attributing one's own actions to situational factors.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Continuing an endeavor due to previously invested resources (time, money, energy) rather than rationally assessing future costs and benefits.