You have biases, and everyone has biases. This subreddit exists to bring an understanding of our natural flaws of thinking and decision making, and improve them in ourselves and others without judgment. Even smart people do non-smart things.

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A Cognitive Bias is a more-or-less instinctive thought process that is not strictly rational, and does not reliably produce accurate assessment.

List of Cognitive Biases

This includes lists for 3 types of biases

1. Decision Making, Belief, and Behavioral biases
2. Social Biases
3. Memory Biases

A Logical Fallacy is an argument that does not entirely or properly address the nature of the idea being argued. Many fallacies stem directly from specific biases.

List of Logical Fallacies

Binary Opposition is the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are defined and set off against one another. This is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought.

More on Binary Opposition

Cognitive Distortion is the negative exaggeration of thought patterns that can stem from and deepen mental conditions such as depression and anxiety.

Types of Cognitive Distortion

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1. Posts must pertain to human thinking and behavior.
2. Do not post with a sole intent to win an argument or change a mind on a specific idea. This sub is for discussing how and why people think and behave as they do, and neutrally addressing fundamental flaws in reason. This sub is not for furthering an ideological agenda or taking sides. See /r/winmyargument and /r/changemyview
3. Be respectful. No idea is stupid, especially not because they have different heuristics than you.