Mind Challenges

This series explores key psychological concepts and cognitive biases that influence human behavior and perception. Learn about the causes and consequences of obsession, and when it crosses the line into unhealthy territory. Dive into the nature of delusions, their types, and potential causes, and understand how they differ from ordinary beliefs. Discover the impact of stereotyping and how it shapes our interactions with others based on group identity. The series also examines the halo effect, which influences how we form opinions about people, and hindsight bias, explaining how we falsely believe we predicted outcomes after they happen. Learn strategies to reduce biases in your daily life and recognize when you’re being deceived. The collection also tackles manipulation—how it can be both harmful and sometimes beneficial depending on intentions—and confabulations, which are false memories people believe to be true. Lastly, the series explains confirmation bias and how it leads us to seek information that reinforces our pre-existing beliefs, often to our detriment.