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player, the more likely you will think him to be an NBA player. They had a hunch that people, when they formed judgments,

Michael Lewis • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

In a sample of 600+ US residents, more than 85% believed they were less biased than the average American. Only one participant believed that he or she was more biased than the average American. Known as the Bias Blind Spot, the study demonstrated that most people are less likely to detect bias in themselves than in others.

Bryan Johnson • A Plan For Humanity

in the few non-WEIRD societies where it has been studied, having high self-esteem and a positive view of oneself are not strongly linked to either life satisfaction or subjective well-being. In many societies, it’s other-esteem (“face”) that matters, not self-esteem rooted in the successful cultivation of a set of unique personal attributes that ca

Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

But categorizing people by their politics is another way that our stereotypes of people are much more rigid and extreme than the actual people themselves.

Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die

if you control for frequency of interactions—that is, if you take into account the fact that black people are far more likely, per capita, to be contacted by cops—you find that the police are no more likely to use lethal force against black suspects than against white suspects.

Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

Econs never make an important decision without checking with their Reflective Systems (if they have time). But Humans sometimes go with the answer the lizard inside is giving without pausing to think.

Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition

Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Surprisingly, being smart can actually make bias worse. Let me give you a different intuitive frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view. After all, people in the “spin room” in a political setting are generally prett

Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

social scientists uncovered the confidence heuristic: people tend to think that confident speakers must be correct.