#cognitive-bias

? Xunzi on “obsession” and modern cognitive bias: the same diagnosis of irrationality?

I study psychology, and this term we covered heuristics and biases: anchoring, availability, confirmation bias, all the ways judgement goes systematically wrong. In the same month I read the chapter of the Xunzi usually translated "Dispelling Obsession" or "Undoing Fixation", and I…