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.

Friday, November 15, 2013

The Critical Thinker's Dictionary

The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and what you can do about them is now available from Amazon, Kobo, ...

Monday, February 4, 2013

the wisdom of not thinking too much

This will be last blog post for Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking . Instead of introducing another cognitive bias or logical fal...

Monday, January 28, 2013

change blindness

Change blindness is the failure to detect non-trivial changes in the visual field. The failure to see things changing right before your eyes...

Monday, January 21, 2013

bias blind spot

The bias blind spot was described by Princeton University psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues (2002) as the tendency to perceive c...

Monday, January 14, 2013

suppressed evidence

A cogent argument presents all the relevant evidence. An argument that omits relevant evidence appears stronger and more cogent than it is....

Monday, January 7, 2013

anecdotal evidence (testimonials)

Testimonials and anecdotes are used to support claims in many fields. Advertisers often rely on testimonials to persuade consumers of the ef...

Monday, December 31, 2012

attribution biases

Human behavior can be understood as issuing from "internal" factors or personal characteristics--such as motives, intentions, or p...

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