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

August 16, 2025
Understanding Survivorship Bias: The Hidden Trap in Our Thinking
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What Exactly Is Cognitive Dissonance?
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Hey, have you ever noticed how sometimes when someone offers you a suggestion or a deal, you just automatically dismiss it—even if it seems pretty reasonable—just because you don’t like who it’s coming from? Like, the very fact that it’s from that person suddenly makes the offer less valuable in your eyes? That, my friend, is called reactive devaluation, and it’s a fascinating little quirk of the human mind that actually ties into ...
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The Framing Effect: How the Way We See Things Shapes Our Decisions
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Why Do We Remember Our Teenage Years So Vividly? A Look at the Reminiscence Bump
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Overcoming the Empathy Gap: How to Outsmart Our Biased Brain
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How Anchoring Bias Sneaks Into Our Decisions Without Us Even Noticing
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Why Do We Reject Good Ideas from "The Other Side"? Understanding Reactive Devaluation and Prejudice
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Understanding Hyperbolic Discounting: Why We Like Stuff Now More Than Later
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What’s the Empathy Gap and How It Messes With Our Thinking
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Why Doing Favors Actually Makes People Like You More: The Ben Franklin Effect Explained
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Why We Value Things More When We Work Hard for Them: Effort Justification and Your Biased Brain
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Why We Remember the Good More Than the Bad: The Fading Affect Bias
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Understanding the Empathy Gap: Why We Sometimes Miss the Mark on Other People’s Feelings
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Hey, Let’s Talk About Naive Realism and Why We Think Our View Is The Only “Real” One
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The Backfire Effect: When Trying to Change Minds Only Makes Them Harder to Change
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How the Crowd Shapes the Game: The Audience Effect in Sports
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What’s the Spotlight Effect and Why Does It Matter?
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The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build Ourselves
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Why Our Brains See Patterns That Aren’t There: The Clustering Illusion
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