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The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

By Ben Yagoda — 2018

Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

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Cognition

Psychological research on cognition focuses not just on thinking, but also on attention, the creation and storage of memories, knowledge acquisition and retention, language learning, and logical reasoning.

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Psychology Today Staff
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What Is Cognition?

Our cognitive processes have a wide-ranging impact that influences everything from our daily life to our overall health.

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Kendra Cherry
2022
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I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong.

Nothing can prepare you for the immense number of complicated, sometimes life-or-death decisions the disease forces you to make about your own treatment.

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Alexandra Glorioso
2019
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A Food Lover Faces an Unimaginable Choice: Give Up Her Stomach or Risk a Fatal Cancer

I had just learned I carry a genetic mutation that puts me at an incredibly high risk for a rare stomach cancer.

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Sáša Woodruff
2021
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Making Important Decisions During Cancer: A Survivor’s Story

A sage piece of advice I’d gotten once was to never make any big life decision in an emotional state. Always give yourself time. But what happens when you don’t have time? No person with cancer has the luxury of time. I sure didn’t. So what happens then?

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Bethany Hart
2021
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Cancer Treatment Decisions: 5 Steps to Help You Decide

Here are five steps to guide you in becoming a partner with your doctor in determining and guiding your cancer treatment.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
2021
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Understanding Your Options and Making Treatment Decisions

Your cancer care team will teach you about your treatment options. But, there’s lots of information about cancer treatments available from other sources, too. There’s also a lot of misinformation out there.

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American Cancer Society
2021
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Can We Rely on Our Intuition?

As the world becomes more complex, making decisions becomes harder. Is it best to depend on careful analysis or to trust your gut?

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Laura Kutsch
2019
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11 Steps to Improve Your Decision Making

Success stems from an accumulation of wise choices. But consistently making good decisions and sound judgments in a frenetic world is challenging. These 11 entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles share their steps to improve your decision making today.

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The Oracles
2017
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Decision-Making

Understanding strategies such as maximizing vs. satisficing, fast versus slow thinking, and factors such as risk tolerance and choice overload, can lead to better outcomes.

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Psychology Today
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