Cognitive Biases: Alief

In this video, the psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the philosopher Tamar Gendler (Yale University)’s concept of alief — an automatic or habitual mental attitude. The video discusses why aliefs differ from beliefs and how aliefs can affect our important decisions more than we expect.

Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology, and Head of Silliman College | Host of The Happiness Lab podcast at Yale University

Our research explores an age-old question: what makes the human mind unique? We test this question by studying the cognitive capacities of non-human animals. By comparing the cognitive abilities of non-human animals to those of humans, we can determine which domains of knowledge are unique to the human mind. At the Canine and Primate Laboratory (aka CapLab), we study the origins of human cognition by focusing on two different groups of non-human animals.

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