Every day, your brain makes thousands of decisions without your conscious awareness. It takes shortcuts (mental rules of thumb that evolved to help our ancestors survive). But in the modern world, these shortcuts can lead us astray.

Why This Matters Now

We live in an age of information overload, algorithmic persuasion, and artificial intelligence that understands our cognitive vulnerabilities better than we do. Social media feeds exploit our availability bias. Marketing teams leverage our loss aversion. Political campaigns target our confirmation bias.

Understanding how your mind can be fooled isn't just academic. It's a form of cognitive self-defense. When you know the traps, you can avoid them.

The Science Behind the Game

IntuitionTrap is built on decades of research in behavioral economics and cognitive psychology. The questions are drawn from landmark experiments by researchers like Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Richard Thaler, and Dan Ariely. Work that has fundamentally changed how we understand human decision-making.

Each question is designed not to test your knowledge, but to reveal your intuitions. The goal isn't to make you feel bad about falling into traps. The goal is to build awareness of patterns that affect everyone, including experts.

Philosophy and Purpose

In an era where AI systems are increasingly designed to predict and influence human behavior, understanding our own cognitive architecture has never been more important. IntuitionTrap is part of a broader project exploring the intersection of human cognition, AI, and what it means to think well in the 21st century.

The Broader Mission

This game is one piece of a larger exploration into human cognition and artificial intelligence. It raises questions that matter: What does it mean to think clearly in an age of algorithmic influence? How do we preserve human agency when machines understand our biases better than we do? And how might awareness of our cognitive limitations be the first step toward genuine wisdom?

Play the game. Read the articles. Think about thinking. Your mind is both the tool and the territory. The better you know it, the better you can use it.