Cognitive Biases and Cults

What are cognitive biases? Why do we have them? And how do cults manipulate them? We discuss heuristics and how they give rise to biases and delve into just a few of them including Essentialism, Conservatism, The Halo Effect, The Fundamental Attribution Error and the Self Serving Bias. We also talk about Daniel Kahneman's book 'Thinking fast and slow' and learn about the two system thinking model he uses. 

 

Useful references

Biases wheel

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-single-cognitive-bias/

Cognitive biases list

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/

 

Thinking fast and slow, Danial Kahneman

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (10 May 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141033576
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141033570