E - Cognitive Biases

Parents

1. We shouldn't trust the availability heuristic
2.5 The Cognitive Challenge
2013 System 1 and system 2 thinking
2014/6 58 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Everything We Do
2016 The impact of cultural cognition worldviews
A to Z of Behavioral Bias
According to psychologist Robert Gifford "we have trouble imagining a future drastically different from the present, we dislike delayed benefits, slowly creeping problems, and complex problems
And our mobility allows us to act on these biases
Anthony Leiserowitz notes that "You almost couldn't design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology."
Dan Kahan notes that we pay attention to information that reinforces what we believe, and dismiss the rest. But this can be overcome.
Expert Bias
Flood risk discounts over 10 years
I'm right you're wrong
If a problem can be solved, no need to worry about it
Often assumed that more number and science literate people see climate risk
The "what you see is all there is" fallacy is huge
Two acronyms for FEAR
Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense
We are inevitably biased, even if we don't want to be
We believe strange things - astrology
We Block Out Complex Problems
We Dislike Delayed Benefits
We Find It Harder to Confront Slowly Creeping Problems