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Confirmation Bias Impacts Situational Awareness

The foundation of situational awareness is capturing clues and cues in your environment – what some would call “paying attention” – and then making sense of those clues and cues – what some would call “understanding” – and then making projections of future events – what some would call “prediction.” One of the challenges in the […]

Anchoring Bias as a Barrier to Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Distractions and Interruptions, Ego, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Meta Awareness, Neuroscience, Repetition, Safety, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

There are over 100 cognitive biases that can impact situational awareness, and subsequently, decision making. Many of these biases are discussed during the Mental Management of Emergencies and Flawed Situational Awareness programs because it is important for responders to understand that we may possess a bias without knowing it and without knowing the impact of

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