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Explore cognitive biases, the brain's hidden shortcuts that shape our perceptions and decisions. Understand the science and the debate behind them.

online symposium organised by Prof. Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex) and Dr Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (University of Warsaw)

When we set about improving how our organizations do things, we expose ourselves to the risk of finding opportunities for improvement that offer very little improvement, while we overlook others that ...

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