psychology-cognitive-biases

You can identify cognitive bias by scanning your specific decision or belief for active bias categories relevant to the stakes and participants, producing an overall distortion risk rating rather than a generic laundry list.

A reasoning audit diagnoses cognitive biases distorting a specific decision by evaluating evidence, planning, probability, or social pressure, needed when a conclusion feels internally justified but carries high distortion risk.

To run a bias audit, provide an explicit situation target and the skill performs bias-by-bias operationalization to produce concrete counter-moves and an overall distortion risk assessment for your belief or behavior.

Yes, you can check for motivated reasoning by diagnosing whether social or organizational pressure is distorting your evidence evaluation, which generates concrete counter-moves to correct course.

The best way to assess distortion risk is to perform bias-by-bias operationalization on your specific context, which outputs a Low, Medium, or High rating quantifying how significantly off-course your current reasoning is.