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cognitive biases

Protect Your Relationships by Cutting Off Your Anchors

August 4, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

How do you communicate, positively and effectively, with your loved ones from far away? Try cleaning your mental caches first.

Categories Free Tags anchoring, cognitive biases, emotional intelligence, logical fallacies, thinking errors, typical mind fallacy Leave a comment

Do Our Mental Maps Lead Us Astray?

April 28, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

This pernicious double standard is often how we misunderstand and misjudge one another…

Categories Free Tags cognitive biases, emotional intelligence, fundamental attribution error, logical fallacies, long-term relationships, thinking errors 2 Comments
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