Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking

A follow-up to the book "Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism and Science Exposed!" by Robert Todd Carroll, creator of The Skeptic's Dictionary. The blog will offer irregular postings about cognitive biases, logical fallacies, and illusions.

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Index of Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking

Alphabetical list of cognitive, perceptual, and affective biases, illusions, and fallacies

  1. Natural Thinking: A case study
  2. ad hoc hypothesis
  3. ad hominem
  4. ad populum
  5. affect bias 
  6. anchoring effect 
  7. anecdotal evidence
  8. apophenia and pareidolia
  9. appeal to authority 
  10. appeal to tradition
  11. argumentum ad ignoratiam
  12. attribution biases
  13. availability bias
  14. backfire effect
  15. begging the question 
  16. bias blind spot
  17. causal fallacies
  18. change blindness
  19. classical conditioning and placebo effect
  20. clustering illusion 
  21. cognitive dissonance
  22. communal reinforcement 
  23. confabulation
  24. confirmation bias
  25. continued influence effect 
  26. control group study
  27. experimenter effect 
  28. fallacies, informal
  29. false implication
  30. false memories
  31. Forer effect
  32. halo effect 
  33. hindsight bias 
  34. ideomotor effect
  35. illusion of control
  36. illusion of justice 
  37. illusion of skill
  38. illusion of understanding 
  39. inattentional blindness
  40. intentionality bias
  41. law of truly large numbers 
  42. logical fallacies 
  43. loss aversion 
  44. magical thinking
  45. motivated reasoning
  46. negativity bias
  47. Occam's razor
  48. optimistic bias
  49. placebo effect 
  50. positive-outcome bias
  51. post hoc fallacy
  52. priming effect 
  53. recency bias
  54. regressive fallacy
  55. representativeness bias 
  56. selection bias
  57. self-deception
  58. shoehorning 
  59. straw man fallacy 
  60. subjective validation 
  61. suppressed evidence
  62. testimonials
  63. wishful thinking 
  64. wisdom of not thinking too much
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