Pages Tagged with #thinking_errors

What Causes Religion and Superstitions?, in the following sections:

• What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 4. The Subconscious
• What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 4.1. Hidden Inner Causes
• What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 3.2. Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (HADD)
• What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 3.4. Hallucinations, Fasting and Sensory Deprivation
• What Causes Religion and Superstitions?: 5.6. Desperate Times: Religious Experiments Including Conversion, Superstitions and Lucky Charms

We Dislike Changing Our Minds: Status Quo Bias and Cognitive Dissonance, in the following sections:

• We Dislike Changing Our Minds: Status Quo Bias and Cognitive Dissonance: 1. Status Quo Bias
• We Dislike Changing Our Minds: Status Quo Bias and Cognitive Dissonance: 2. Cognitive Dissonance
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Pareidolia - Seeing False Patterns in Random Data: Faces in Toast, Bible Codes and Conspiracy Theories, in the following sections:

• Pareidolia - Seeing False Patterns in Random Data: Faces in Toast, Bible Codes and Conspiracy Theories: 4. Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (HADD)
• Pareidolia - Seeing False Patterns in Random Data: Faces in Toast, Bible Codes and Conspiracy Theories: 5. Seeing What You Want to See: Racists Mistake Bus Seats for Burkha-Wearing Terrorists
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Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth), in the following sections:

• Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.4. The Forer (Barnum) Effect
• Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.2. Statistical Regression and Desperate Times
• Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth): 3.5. The Enthusiasm of Amateurs: Freethought Without Skeptical Thinking Leads to Deception

What is Skepticism and Its Values?, in the following sections:

• What is Skepticism and Its Values?: 2.1. Think Slowly and Carefully
• What is Skepticism and Its Values?: 1. The Problem: We are Easily Mistaken
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The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs, in the following sections:

• The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs: 6. Explaining Our Experiences
• The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs: 9. Concluding: Errors in Thinking, and Preventative Steps
• The False and Conflicting Experiences of Mankind: How Other Peoples' Experience Contradict Our Own Beliefs: 5.1. Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences

Broken Toys and Magical Thinking, in the following sections:

• Broken Toys and Magical Thinking: 1. Fixing Our Broken Toys is Often Too Difficult
• Broken Toys and Magical Thinking: 2. Magical Thinking

Science and Religion, in the following sections:

• Science and Religion: 3. Science Acting Against Religion
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General Neophobia in Everyday Life: Humankind's Fear of Progress and Change, in the following sections:

• General Neophobia in Everyday Life: Humankind's Fear of Progress and Change: 2.2. Current Events Ego
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Astrology: Do Observed Positions of the Planets Influence Our Lives in Mystical Ways?, in the following sections:

• Astrology: Do Observed Positions of the Planets Influence Our Lives in Mystical Ways?: 6. Thinking Errors
• Astrology: Do Observed Positions of the Planets Influence Our Lives in Mystical Ways?: 3.3. The Forer/Barnum Effect (The Abuse of Psychology)

Selection Bias and Confirmation Bias, in the following sections:

• Selection Bias and Confirmation Bias: 4. Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis - Overcoming Selection Bias
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Why are Our Memories Unreliable?, in the following sections:

• Why are Our Memories Unreliable?: 4. Thinking Errors
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Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition), in the following sections:

• Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition): 1. Pareidolia
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Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?, in the following sections:

• Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?: 4. Thinking Errors
• Subjectivism and Phenomenology: Is Objective Truth Obtainable?: 6. Solipsism: Extreme Philosophical Epistemology

Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought, in the following sections:

• Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought: 2.1. Everyday Errors in Thinking Continually Skew Our Beliefs and Experiences
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Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes, in the following sections:

• Experiences of God are Illusions, Derived from Malfunctioning Psychological Processes: 2. Hallucinations and Fasting
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Animism, in the following sections:

• Animism: 1. Hyperactive Agent Detection Device (the Psychology of Religion and Superstition)
• Animism: 2. Pareidolia - Seeing False Patterns in Random Data: Faces in Toast, Bible Codes and Conspiracy Theories

Predicting the Future: 2. Cataclysmic Predictions of the Effects of Technology

A Skeptical Take on Psi, Parapsychology and Other Supernatural Phenomenon: 3.1. Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism: 1. The Physical Brain is the Source of Emotions, Personality and Memory

Mass Belief and the False Consensus Effect: Everyone Believes It So It Must Be True!

Statistical Regression: Causes of Strange Beliefs and Pseudoscience

What is Science and the Scientific Method?: 1.2. Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis - Overcoming Selection Bias

Opposites are Illusions

The Importance of Current Events is Amplified by our Egos: 1. Current Events and the Ego

Friedrich Nietzsche: 4. A Critical Thinker

Fundamentalism and Literalism in World Religions: 2. Why Question Beliefs? The Descent Into Uncompromising Fundamentalism

Religion and Intelligence: 4. The Benefits and Side-Effects of Questioning Beliefs

Metaphysical Solipsism is Not True

Religion as the Result of Human Mythmaking: 2. Story Telling

To Turn a Hypothesis Into a Theory, It Must Be Tested: 4. How to Deal With Ideas that Go Against Scientific Knowledge

The Christian Dark Ages of Europe: 2.4. Why Question Beliefs? Dangers of Placing Ideas Beyond Doubt, and Advantages of Freethought

The Crabtree Scale of Sources: Who Can We Trust?: 0. (5/10) Expert Content

We Easily Mislead Ourselves With Unfounded Stories

Friedrich Nietzsche on Indispensable Falsehoods

The Internal Challenges Facing Democracy: 3.3. Politicians' Reluctance to Analyse Contradictory Evidence

Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis - Overcoming Selection Bias

Scientific Theories Must Make Way for New Evidence: 1. Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths

Spiritualism: 4.3. The Forer (Barnum) Effect

Rationalism Versus Irrationality: Are Emotions Useful?

God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic: 1. Oral Transmission

Human Story Telling: The Poor Accuracy of Oral Transmission

Perception is Influenced By Expectation: You Can't Always Trust Your Senses

The Forer (or Barnum) Effect

Hallucinations, Sensory Deprivation and Fasting: The Physiological Causes of Religious and Mystical Experiences

Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs): 3. What We Learn From Skyhook Balloons

Happiness and Religion: Does Belief Make You Happy Or Does Unhappiness Make You Believe?: 1.1. Do Unhappy People Become More Religious? Is it a Coping Mechanism?

Anti-Religious Forces: Specific Factors Fuelling Secularisation: 2.4. Science

Don't Panic: The World is Not About to End and Western Culture is Safe: 1. Current Events and the Ego

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