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When couples over-analyze their cognitive biases during conflict

My wife and I both work in analytics and we've become obsessed with cataloging our cognitive biases, but it's turning every disagreement into this meta-analysis where we're accusing each other of confirmation bias or anchoring and we can't just have a normal fight anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Intellectual awareness of bias patterns can become another form of defensiveness that prevents genuine emotional engagement.

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“Where Are You with Cognitive biases — complete reference?”

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