Cognitive Vulnerabilities & OSINT

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Cognitive vulnerabilities (in the established understanding) are exposures and/or tendencies to defects in thinking: significant cognitive distortions, erroneous beliefs, cognitive biases (biases), or stereotyped patterns of thinking that create the basis for a person’s predisposition to cognitive failures and lead to distortions and dysfunctions of thought processes.

• Cognitive vulnerabilities of the practitioner-analyst
• Cognitive Bias Mitigation
• Cognitive bias mitigation — Wiki
• Recognizing and Mitigating Cognitive Biases: A Threat to Objectivity
• Cognitive Bias Mitigation: How to Make Decision-Making Rational?
• The Impact of Cognitive Biases on Professionals’ Decision-Making: A Review of Four Occupational Areas
• HARKing: hypothesizing after the results are known
• Hypothesizing after the results are known (HARKing) & Paper
• Cognitive vulnerability
• Why do we focus on one characteristic to compare when choosing between alternatives? & More
• IARPA’s plan to hack the brains of hackers
• Are Cyber Attackers Thinking Fast and Slow?
• DMBOK2
• US Comission Report — 2005
• 5 Cognitive Biases could affect your OSINT investigations

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