Free Cognitive Bias Test
Discover which cognitive biases most influence your daily decisions.
You hesitate to buy a fairly expensive product online.
What is your most likely reaction?
Why take a cognitive bias test?
Cognitive biases are mental shortcuts that help us decide quickly… but can sometimes mislead us. They influence our choices, judgments, our way of interpreting information or assessing risks. Knowing them doesn’t eliminate them, but helps to better identify and take a step back.
Some biases explored in this test
Confirmation Bias
Tendency to favor information that confirms what we already think, and to minimize information that contradicts our beliefs.
Anchoring Bias
Influence of an initial piece of information (a price, a figure, a first impression) that serves as a “starting point” for all our judgments.
Availability Bias
We judge an event more likely simply because we have a recent or striking example in mind.
Loss Aversion
Losses weigh more heavily on us than equivalent gains. We may remain in a less satisfactory situation for fear of losing what we already have.
How to use your results?
This test is not a diagnosis, but a tool for awareness. It can help you to:
• identify situations where your biases are most activated (purchases, work, relationships, risk management);
• slow down before deciding: “Am I influenced by a first impression, a striking memory, the fear of losing?”;
• develop a more nuanced thinking by confronting your first intuitions with other viewpoints.
And to train your brain?
The DYNSEO programs (COCO, JOE, EDITH) offer logic, memory, attention, and mental flexibility games. They do not “eliminate” biases, but help you maintain a more flexible mind and be more attentive to details… which is already an excellent starting point.