Bad Choices: Why We Make 'Em

I'm going to defer to the authority...his examples are great - the kind that makes you shake your head and say, no, I would never think that, I'm better at math than that, until you realize you fall into the pitfalls too (yes, I know, some few super-math-and-logic-guys out there don't do it). The question is whether being cognizant of our proclivities for messed-up-reasoning can help us prevent ourselves from acting on it, even if we can't prevent our minds from jumping to silly conclusions.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dan Gilbert, with an early TED talk (2005) that is still worth it.