{"id":12559,"date":"2015-09-23T07:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12559"},"modified":"2015-09-23T07:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:46:38","slug":"20-cognitive-biases-that-screw-up-your-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12559","title":{"rendered":"20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"first\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/cognitive-biases-that-affect-decisions-2015-8\" target=\"_blank\">20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>You make thousands of rational decisions every day \u2014 or so you think.<\/p>\n<p>From what you\u2019ll eat throughout the day to whether you should make a big career move, research suggests that there are a number of cognitive stumbling blocks that affect your behaviour, and they can prevent you from acting in your own best interests.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we\u2019ve rounded up the most common biases that screw up our decision-making.<\/p>\n<div class=\"display-media image primary center clear\"><a href=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/55ddd6f7bd86ef1e008b6051\/image.jpg\" rel=\"modal\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size_primary\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/55ddd6f7bd86ef1e008b6051-1200\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions You make thousands of rational decisions every day \u2014 or so you think. From what you\u2019ll eat throughout the day to whether you should make a big career move, research suggests that there are a number of cognitive stumbling blocks that affect your behaviour, and they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9219,5243,9218,1251,9217],"class_list":["post-12559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-behaviour","tag-bias","tag-business-insider","tag-cognitive-bias","tag-decision-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12559\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}