The Biased Brain Podcast

The Biased Brain Podcast

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast! Today, we're going to chat about something many of you have shown interest in - the career path from data analytics to data science. If you're considering making the leap or just curious about what this journey looks like, stick around. We'll break it down in a way that’s both informative and fun!

Episodes

September 28, 2025
Cognitive Biases and Memory Errors: Why Our Minds Don’t Always Tell the Truth
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The Bias Blind Spot: Why We Can’t See Our Own Biases
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The Subadditivity Effect: Why Our Brains Trick Us Into Bad Judgments
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The IKEA Effect: Why Building Stuff Makes Us Love It More
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Why Our Cognitive Biases Might Actually Help Us Survive
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The Audience Effect and How Stress Plays a Role
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Understanding Empathy-Altruism Theory: Why We Really Help Others
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The Hidden Tug-of-War: Hyperbolic Discounting and Why We Procrastinate
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Why We Think Bad Things Won’t Happen to Us: Understanding Optimism Bias in Risk Assessment
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The Placebo Effect: Ethical Considerations in a Biased Brain
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The Curious Case of Overconfidence: The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explained
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Disconfirmation Bias: Why Our Brains Sometimes Reject the Truth
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Understanding Unit Bias: How Portion Size Tricks Your Mind
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Why We Think We’re Always Right: Naive Realism and Political Beliefs
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The Hidden Impact of Misinformation on Our Daily Lives
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Understanding Confirmation Bias: Why Your Brain Loves to Be Right
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Understanding Ingroup Bias: Everyday Examples of Our Biased Brain
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Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why We Sometimes Overestimate Ourselves
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Why We All Jump on the Bandwagon: The Bandwagon Effect in Economics
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The Curious Psychology Behind the Ben Franklin Effect
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