How Biases Affect Our

Thinking
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by KURT JUAREZ
 The Different Types of Biases
Correspondence Bias
Our tendency to give greater
weight to personality-based
explanations for other
people's behavior, rather than
situational ones.
Conflict of Interest
Our inclination to favor
our own interests, or those
of our group, over the
well-being of others.
Confirmation Bias
The tendency to seek out
information that supports our
existing beliefs — and to ignore
information that contradicts
them.
Cultural Bias
Our natural predisposition to
prefer people who are like us,
and to have negative attitudes
toward those who are different.
 Framing - focuses on a certain aspect of a problem while
ignoring other aspects.
Positive Framing Negative Framing

Anticipating positive
outcomes can help us
overcome negative biases
and make better decisions.
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When we focus too much on
negative information, we can
become pessimistic and more
prone to making bad decisions.
The Impact of Biases on
Decision-Making
1 Lower-Quality 2 3 Strained Relationships
Decisions Reduced Innovation
Unconscious Biases can Prejudices against
biases can limit our others can harm
greatly inhibit creativity and work relationships
our ability to prevent us and hurt team
make clear, from thinking dynamics, making
rational outside the collaboration and
decisions, box, ultimately communication
leading to holding us and difficult.
suboptimal our
outcomes and organizations
poor back.
performance.
 The Science of Overcoming Biases
1 Acknowledge Your Biases
Become aware of your predispositions and challenge them by
seeking out alternative viewpoints.

2 Embrace Diversity
Engage with people from different backgrounds and
perspectives to expose yourself to new ways of thinking.

3 Remove Biases from Processes

Employ data-driven, objective approaches to decision-making and
create checks and balances to reduce the influence of biases .
Conclusion

1 Biases are Inevitable

Biases are a natural part of human psychology and can't be completely
avoided, but we can work to recognize and mitigate their negative
effects.

2 Self-Awareness is Key
By becoming more aware of our biases, we can better control
their impact on our decision-making and our lives in general.

3 Change Starts with You

Breaking free of limiting biases requires a
willingness to change, to take risks, and to embrace
diversity in all its forms.