Backfire effect: why debunking does not regenerate our thinking
I’m sure each and every one of you has had occasion to get carried away and enter into a politically motivated discussion. The COVID crisis we have collectively gone through has created many opportunities for polarisation: lockdowns yes or no, vaccines yes or no, chloroquine yes or no etc. The arena in which many of […]
Women’s leadership and second-generation gender bias
The lean in model I was preparing a webinar on the topic of leadership and women. The talk was about a model of leadership more suitable for women, which allows to overcome the so-called “double constraint“, so to get out of the dualism “take care = woman, empathetic, emotional etc, take charge = man, strong, […]
Dragons of Inaction: the diffusion of responsibility in teams and in macrosystems
This week we introduce the “Bias of the Week” column with an interesting article written by Giovanna Prina, Managing Partner of BB7, the company with whom we developed our INSIDIAE bias card game. Giovanna makes us think about how, within the work team, the diffusion of responsibility bias can cause drops in productivity and also […]
Paula’s principle: When Paula and Peter are mirrored
Many years ago, a series of circumstances that started with one of my husband’s Eurostar journeys and a conversation he started with his train neighbour, commenting on the French elections and Sarkozy’s arrival in power, passed through a beautiful summer evening in a Parisian attic, led me to meet the author of the book “Paula’s […]
“Less is more” but what a struggle!
Instinctively, when I started writing this blog post, my first reaction was to go in search of other sources, other material that could help me enrich my ideas. How Klotz’s book came about And I find it really hard to think of enrichment in any other way than adding more reading to multiply my thoughts, […]
IKEA effect: when work leads to love
The IKEA effect The title of this week’s bias recalls the research conducted at Harvard by M. Norton, D. Mochon and D. Ariely. Ariely, in which the participants were asked to assemble products, fold origami and build Lego elements. This study showed how, once the assemblies were produced, the estimated value of their work […]
The Barnum Effect
During the past year, which has been very special, we have been studying intensively and creating new partnerships. Unconscious bias We are about to launch an important project on the subject of unconscious bias, heuristics, illusions and fallacies, together with our partner BB7. It is a game to learn in a fun way how […]
Our New Blog is On Line!
We have been working on our blog for a few months now. Yes, it took us a while but now we hope things will go faster. The aim of the blog is to start a dialogue, with the people who follow us, with whom we are making projects, or people and organizations who are interested […]
