Cognitive Bias ExplorerΕΛ

Your brain takes shortcuts. Here is the map.

188 mental shortcuts that usually help and sometimes mislead. Pick one to see why it happens and how to catch it.

Try an experiment or take the quiz

Watch them in action

Short animated videos, about 30 seconds each. Pick one to play it.

Feel it happen

Ten quick experiments, most under a minute. Answer honestly, then see what happened.

Why biases exist at all

Every bias is a side effect of solving one of four everyday problems.

Every bias, by family

Search by name or topic, like "money" or "memory". Most entries are cognitive biases. Labels mark the memory effects, the logical fallacies, other names for the same thing, and the few that aren't biases at all.

Spot the bias

Eight everyday scenarios. Pick the bias behind each one.

Habits that catch most of them

For decisions that are expensive or hard to undo, these checks catch most of the map.

Your biases

Recognise one in yourself? Press "I do this" on its card. They collect here, with the habits that catch them. Saved only on this device.