What factors make us more susceptible to bias and how can we counteract these effects on our thinking? This text helps improve your ability to mitigate cognitive bias by encouraging you to “consider the opposite”—that is, to evaluate evidence from a different perspective. It also details various bias triggers, such as anger and fear, and provides examples of cognitive biases in diverse scenarios, describing how techniques such as “consider the opposite” can be used to decrease the impact of bias and improve reasoning in these scenarios.