Bias for Beginners: how decisions and beliefs get skewed

A Listmania! list by Dr. M. L. Poulter "Bias and Belief" (Bristol, UK)
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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
1.  Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
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  "It's as good as the title implies. Self-justification, cognitive dissonance and why good people do bad things"
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Irrationality
2.  Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
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  "This was the book that got me into the whole area. A great starting point, covering many examples of personal and organisational bias"
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
3.  Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
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  "A quirky selection of research from a very likeable psychologist/behavioural economist. Not systematic but impassioned in its criticism of rational choice economics."
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
4.  Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H Thaler
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  "Applies bias theory to questions of public policy, including the intriguing recommendation that we privatise marriage."
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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
5.  A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
The list author says:
  "More up-to-date than "Irrationality", another good starting point on cognitive biases with interesting material about sexism, racism and other stereotypes."
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Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Mind
6.  Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Mind by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
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  "Not as broad or as accessible as some of the others, but a good summary of lots of the academic literature on cognitive illusions"
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How We Know What isn't So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
7.  How We Know What isn't So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
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  "Old but one of the very best-written, and by a prominent researcher. Goes on the attack against alternative medicine."
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Influence: Science and Practice
8.  Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini
The list author says:
  "Still a classic: with experiments and some undercover work, a psychologist finds out how marketers use our biases and heuristics to make us comply."
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Stumbling on Happiness (P.S.)
9.  Stumbling on Happiness (P.S.) by Daniel Gilbert
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  "Surveys an amazing breadth of bias research in the course of examining why we humans are so bad at being happy."
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
10.  Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Wilson
The list author says:
  "A real overlooked classic: after a slow first few chapters it gets into why our knowledge of ourselves is so bad, with implications for happiness amongst other things"
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Cognitive Illusions: A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory
11.  Cognitive Illusions: A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory by Rüdiger F Pohl
The list author says:
  "A serious academic textbook, unlike the above popularisations. Essential if you want to learn about the controversies in cognitive bias research, even explaining how to do your own experiments."
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