Declan Brady Counselling, Galway

Introduction This is the third of my four blogs on the brain. In my first blog, I outlined the main functions and features of both our conscious and unconscious minds. In the second blog and this one, I consider some of the biases and errors of the brain before in my fourth blog suggesting ways to minimise some of these defects. This article discusses the following cognitive errors: Loss Aversion, the Planning Fallacy, the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the Anchoring Effect, the Priming

Introduction This is the second of my four blogs on the wonders of the brain. In my first blog, I outlined the main functions and features of both our conscious and unconscious minds. In this blog and another to follow, I consider some of the biases and errors of the brain before in my fourth blog suggesting ways to minimise some of these defects. This article discusses The Narrative Fallacy & Hindsight Bias, the Focusing Illusion, the Availability & Affect Heuristics and the