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In this episode, critical thinking expert Nikita Nepriyakhin (/ nikita.nepryakhin ) talks about cognitive biases. Why do people make incorrect predictions and incorrectly assess probabilities? Where do we go wrong? And how do marketers, social media creators, and casinos exploit cognitive biases? 00:00 "This is not Freud." Cognitive biases 00:50 What are cognitive biases and how were they discovered? 05:35 About the fundamental attribution error 08:17 About the "IKEA effect" 14:01 About our illusion of control and how others make money on it 16:46 Why do we need confirmation of our choices 18:10 A letter from a viewer 20:07 How do social media creators exploit our weaknesses 24:40 Is it possible to understand when we are wrong? 26:53 On the halo effect 30:00 "Survivorship bias": why we focus only on RTVI success stories News - all the main events in 24/7 format: / myrtvi Read and watch the news on the RTVI website: http://www.rtvi.com Also, watch all the most important and interesting things in our telegram channel: https://t.me/rtvimain And subscribe to RTVI on other social networks: Facebook: / myrtvi VKontakte: http://vk.com/rtvi Twitter: / rtvi Instagram: / rtvichannel Odnoklassniki: https://ok.ru/rtvi We also have a telegram channel of the "Takoe" section with news from the world of music, cinema and the Internet: https://t.me/rtvireal And the "Takoe" public page on VKontakte: https://vk.com/takoe_rtvi