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We have more information at our fingertips than ever before, but this doesn’t mean we’re making better decisions. Why? One culprit: the confirmation bias.

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When it comes to food, presentation and taste are connected: the eyes eat first. The science suggests we apply a similar idea to people: attractive people are seen as smarter, kinder, more moral, and so on. It’s called the attractiveness halo.

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What’s more likely: death by shark attack, or death by lightning strike? The science suggests you’ll choose “shark attack”… but that’s not the right answer. So why do so many of us agree?

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In a groundbreaking study, sociologist Devah Pager showed that being Black hurts an applicant's chances of being hired just as much as a felony conviction. What do decisions based on gut instincts mean for the survival of a business?

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Voices are more than just sounds. They’re auditory faces that can give clues to who we are. But are these always accurate? How might accents skew our decision-making?

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We like to think we use objective criteria to make our decisions. But what happens when we choose the person first, and then choose the standard that supports our decision?

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Sometimes it makes sense to shift our standards based on context. But are we raising and lowering the bar when we shouldn’t?

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40 years ago, researchers found that patients with amnesia could form new memories… implicitly. This sparked an ongoing revolution in research on the hidden mind.

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In Part 2, we explore the story of a small group of scientists, the test they developed to reveal implicit process of the mind, and how they harnessed the birth of the internet to share it with the world.

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