They help guide your thinking and by doing so act as a distraction from many of your limiting mental biases.
Re-framing the problem or looking for solutions from various perspective (or adjacent fields) is a great way to overcome some of the mental biases that plague us.
Even when we are informed and motivated to think clearer thoughts, the architecture of the mind often prevents us from being aware of our mental biases.
We all have the potential to be great creative problem solvers, but what most people do not realize is that our ability to solve problems creatively, whether applied to product development, business models, brand strategy, positioning platforms or creative executions, is significantly limited by a series of natural mental biases.
Our findings suggest the existence of an attentional and/or mental representational bias in semantic judgments, similar to that observed for the processing of space and numbers.
As in the cohort of this study, consent to use register data was likely to compensate for mental disorder bias.
At the same time, sensitivity training should be offered for general practitioners and emergency-room staff to promote self-awareness on mental illness bias, the impact of stigma toward mental illness in access to care and/or therapeutic relationships, and general information on early intervention programmes, resources and services.
Challenge your mind when it gets trapped in a confirmation bias, mental set, or belief perseverance.
An inquest into the 2014 death of Jermaine Carby, a black man who was shot while being carded at a traffic stop in Brampton, recommended police implement a strategy to "measure the effectiveness of officer training for unconscious bias, mental health issues, de-escalation and use of force".
However, the cases and the controls in both the Swedish and the Finnish materials represented ethnically homogeneous populations, and the controls were extensively scored to exclude any mental illness, reducing bias due to the ethnic variation and dilution of genetic effects due to disorder heterogeneity among the controls.
