AI Is Stealing Your Memory
I noticed it first with my mother’s birthday. She’d mentioned it three weeks before. I’d seen it in her message, remembered thinking I should mark it down. But…
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Cognitive Psychology
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Why Experts Believe Wrong Things
The surgeon I know well enough to call regularly performed unnecessary procedures for 15 years before admitting it. Not secretly. Not with malice. He genuinely believed those operations…
The Fake Familiarity Trap
You know the feeling. Someone walks into the room and your brain screams: I know this person. You’ve seen them before. You’re certain. Your confidence is absolute. But…
More Information, Worse Decisions, Decision Fatigue in the Digital Age
I had to choose between 47 jam varieties. That’s not a metaphor. I was standing in a grocery store, holding a jar of apricot preserves, looking at 46…
Cultural Bias in How We Think
The psychological study was conducted perfectly. The experimental design was sound. The sample size was adequate. The controls were tight. The results were published in a peer-reviewed journal.…