My Cognitive Bias

A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab.

My Cognitive Bias: Learn About Cognitive Biases Every New Tab

My Cognitive Bias is a unique Chrome extension that seeks to educate users about cognitive biases. Every time a new tab is opened, a different cognitive bias is explained. These biases, often unbeknownst to us, affect our decisions, opinions, and behaviours. By learning about these biases, it is possible to modify our actions through bias correction. The tool aims to help users better understand and manage their cognitive biases, promoting more rational decisions and behavior.
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Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.79
(14)
Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2022-11-02)
Creation date: 2020-01-13
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 32.80K

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Extension summary

A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab.

Cognitive biases affect everything we do. Amongst other things, they make us spend impulsively, be overly influenced by what other people think. They change our beliefs, our opinions, and our decisions, and we have no idea it is happening.

When we are aware of our biases, it is sometimes possible, to estimate the bias and then modify our behaviour. This procedure is called bias correction, and this is the reason why we built this extension.

Inspired by the Cognitive Bias Codex by DesignHacks.co. List of biases mostly by Wikipedia.

Update If you're looking for a more advanced plugin, get a Cognitive Bias, Mental Model or Dark Pattern explained every time you open a new tab from BrainyTab.com. It also gives you an amazing way to save and manage bookmarks easily (super fast search included).

User reviews

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Pros
  • Interesting and informative content
  • Clever way to remind users of cognitive biases
  • Easy to use with low barrier to entry
  • Generates nicely formatted landing pages
Cons
  • Lacks dark mode
  • Missing a favorites/save feature
Most mentioned
  • Request for dark mode
User reviews
Please add dark mode.
by Nick Ostrovsky, 2019-03-27

Its a good app. Its missing a dark mode and a favorites/save feature.
by Kevin Desai, 2019-03-25

Really interesting content in an incredibly digestible format - thanks guys :-D
by A Google user, 2019-03-25
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Risk impact

My Cognitive Bias requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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