- Our thoughts are less free than we think. Our brain has the annoying tendency to consolidate us in our opinions or to take sometimes annoying shortcuts.
- The guest of this episode of Sixth Science is called Albert Moukheiber. Neuroscientist, he is also the author of Your brain plays tricks on you where it explains very simply the many cognitive biases that guide our thoughts.
- We interviewed him during the Visions event, organized on December 4 in Paris, by 20 Minutes .
Our brain sometimes does things it doesn't think about. For convenience, he borrows shortcuts, makes approximations. While we all believe we are making our decisions "in our soul and conscience" according to the expression used, our reasoning is actually deviated from the most unconscious. To talk about these automatisms that guide the steps of our thoughts, psychologists use the term cognitive bias.
Our guest, neuroscientist Albert Moukheiber, author of the book “Your brain plays tricks on you”, has made a specialty of explaining what he calls automatic thinking and understanding its mechanisms.
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