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How the Illusory Truth Effect Shapes Office Beliefs
Season 4 Episode 162
Why do false claims about your work or your company start to feel true after enough repetitions? Lucas and Luna dig into the illusory truth effect an…
13 hours ago
Why Your Brain Rewards the Office Gossip
Season 4 Episode 161
Episode 161 of The Office Politics Podcast digs into a counterintuitive truth about workplace chatter: gossip isn't just social noise, it's a powerfu…
1 day, 12 hours ago
How the Mere Exposure Effect Shapes Office Favoritism
Season 4 Episode 160
In this episode of The Office Politics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the Mere Exposure Effect—the psychological bias that makes us prefer people si…
2 days, 13 hours ago
How the IKEA Effect Shapes Your Office Influence
Season 4 Episode 159
In this episode of The Office Politics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the IKEA effect—our tendency to overvalue things we helped create—and how it q…
3 days, 12 hours ago
Why Your Brain Turns Colleagues Into Enemies
Season 4 Episode 158
In this episode of The Office Politics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the out-group homogeneity effect and how it silently shapes office alliances, …
4 days, 13 hours ago
How the Spotlight Effect Puffs Up Your Office Mistakes
Season 4 Episode 157
In this episode of The Office Politics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore why small office mistakes feel catastrophic and how the spotlight effect infla…
5 days, 13 hours ago
How the Availability Heuristic Distorts Your Office Reputation
Season 4 Episode 156
In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the availability heuristic — the mental shortcut that makes the most recent or vivid information feel like the…
6 days, 12 hours ago
The Halo Effect at Work: How One Trait Colors Everything
Season 4 Episode 155
Ever wonder why that one colleague gets away with everything while you're micromanaged? It might be the halo effect — a cognitive bias where one posi…
1 week ago
How the Bandwagon Effect Shapes Office Politics
Season 4 Episode 154
Lucas and Luna explore how the bandwagon effect — our tendency to adopt beliefs and behaviors because others are doing the same — quietly warps decis…
1 week, 1 day ago
How the Anchoring Effect Shapes Office Negotiations
Season 4 Episode 153
In this episode of The Office Politics Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how the anchoring effect quietly shapes everyday office negotiations – from sa…
1 week, 2 days ago