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What our brains do before anybody even gets involved. 😂

Behavior

Why do smart people make irrational decisions? Why do we follow crowds, misremember events, defend bad choices, trust confident strangers, and see patterns where none exist?

Welcome to the wonderfully unreliable human brain. We’ll explore cognitive bias, conformity, groupthink, identity, persuasion, memory, perception, 

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Brain on Autopilot

People Are Weird Together

Brain on Autopilot

Biases, mental shortcuts, perception, memory, confirmation bias and all the tiny glitches that let our brains reach a conclusion before we realize there was a question. Impulse, FOMO, status, retail therapy, buyer's remorse - all the emotional stuff we swear had nothing to do with the purchase.

Why We Do That

People Are Weird Together

Brain on Autopilot

Habits, motivation, emotion, cognitive dissonance, self-control, risk and reward. The psychology behind perfectly sensible people doing spectacularly irrational things. Anchoring, loss adversion, the decoy effect, choice overload, scarcity - the little brain glitches marketers know how to poke.

People Are Weird Together

People Are Weird Together

People Are Weird Together

Conformity, groupthink, tribalism, obedience, social identity and the bystander effect. Because apparently adding more humans does not always improve the decision-making. 

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At ABD, our goal is to illuminate issues surrounding consumer behavior and delve into the complexities of consumer culture. We challenge behavioral myths and share everyday stories that deserve a deeper look. By leveraging insights from consumer psychology, we separate fact from fiction with a blend of research, humor,

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