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