CFAR is a non-profit organization dedicated to harnessing breakthroughs in the study of cognition to improve human decision-making. [ Ссылка ]

Kenzi is Operations Manager at CFAR
Kenzi has worked as a professional stage manager throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a BA in theatrical stage management from Stanford University and a BS in biology from the University of Oregon.


What if we could make better use of the vast amounts of experience and evidence we have about our careers, our businesses, our health, and our happiness? What if we could reliably react in productive ways, and overcome the impulses we wanted to change?
Even the smartest human brains didn't evolve to handle the kinds of complex decisions we face daily in the modern world. In some ways, our instincts serve us beautifully, but forty years of research in cognitive science has found ways in which our brains reliably misunderstand probabilities, ignore alternative theories, invent explanations for chance events, seek self-serving explanations, inconsistently over-weight short term rewards, and much more. What can we do?

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