The Librarian Guide to Cognitive Bias

Over the past week, I’ve written up posts examining different cognitive biases. I’ve reviewed the academic research on each of them and provided specific ideas on how you can overcome these problems. In this post, I bring it all together and help you read through the series. Feel free to comment here or on any fo the individual posts. Did I leave out an important bias? (I’m sure I did, but I wanted to look at five to get things started).

• Part 1: Confirmation Bias
• Part 2: Availability heuristic
• Part 3: Fundamental attribution error
• Part 4: Selection bias
• Part 5: Anchoring

I wrote this series from the perspective of a librarian and looking at how people understand information. I hope that non-librarians also find it to be of interest. If you’re doing anything in life beyond digging ditches, you’re probably working with information constantly so it is worth your while to think through how you think.

Related posts:

1. The Librarian Guide to Cognitive Bias: Selection Bias
2. The Librarian Guide to Cognitive Bias: Fundamental Attribution Error
3. The Librarian Guide to Cognitive Bias: Confirmation Bias
4. The Librarian Guide to Cognitive Bias: Availability heuristic