Cognitive Biases in Everyday Life

This small book deals with Cognitive Biases in Everyday Life and some ways to reduce the negative impact of cognitive biases on our thinking and decision making processes. Cognitive biases are systematic errors in the human thinking process which can have various negative impacts at the personal, social, and work domains.
The book covers the definition and the status of research on cognitive biases, detailed information on some of the most common and powerful cognitive biases, and recommends some strategies that we can employ in our daily lives in order to deal with the impact of cognitive biases. The book is intended for a general audience, having no prior training in the academic field of psychology. The author is a consulting psychologist and science popularizer who has studied psychology as an academic subject at the doctoral level.