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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…
1 day, 1 hour 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…
2 days 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…
3 days, 1 hour 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…
4 days 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, …
5 days, 1 hour 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…
6 days 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…
1 week 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, 2 days 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, 3 days ago