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Our fourth on the list of the five most common cognitive biases in the workplace is Anchoring Bias. As we’ve talked about earlier, if we have a brain, we have bias. In order to process the amount of information our brain needs to process, it utilizes mental shortcuts that create a wide range of unconscious biases. These unconscious biases happen to all of us and can have negative consequences in our decisions and interactions. Cognitive biases lay the foundation for social biases in our behaviors and, over time, through processes, protocols and policies these biases become formalized ...

Proximity Bias & Unconscious Bias We conclude our series on the five most common cognitive biases in the workplace with Proximity Bias. Unconscious bias is the product of automatic functions that our brain uses to process the volume of information we receive each moment of everyday. For the most part, these mental shortcuts serve to ease our cognitive load. However, some create unconscious bias. Understanding these cognitive biases can help us to recognize them in the moment and give us an opportunity to act differently. Left addressed, these biases can become social biases which lead to discriminatory ...