When making decisions, people often make use of short-cuts to facilitate this process. This can lead to systematic errors and biases, leading to sub-optimal decisions and sometimes irrational...Show moreWhen making decisions, people often make use of short-cuts to facilitate this process. This can lead to systematic errors and biases, leading to sub-optimal decisions and sometimes irrational decision making. These biases can be correlated to the phenomenon of post-truth, where influencing emotions is the focus when presenting information, rather than actual facts. This paper investigates the correlation between several cognitive biases and post-truth, applied to case studies on Brexit and Donald Trump. It concludes that biases such as motivated reasoning, system 1 and 2 thinking and the availability bias, can reinforce or facilitate post-truth, and that we can see this correlation play out in both case studies.Show less
