Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. A theme runs through much of it: the mind mostly runs on fast, automatic shortcuts that work well enough for everyday life but fail in systematic, repeatable ways. Those failures — cognitive biases — are a natural bridge to logical fallacies: the fallacy is the broken argument, the bias is the mental habit that keeps producing it. Alongside how we reason, psychology studies how we learn (conditioning) and how we remember (memory) — both of which turn out to be far less reliable than they feel.