Human thought has hundreds of hard-wired bugs. The Socratic Method gives us a fighting chance to overcome them.
Paper describing evidence and several implications of availability bias - http://people.umass.edu/biep540w/pdf/Tversky%20availability.pdf
Paper describing evidence and several implications of confirmation bias - http://landman-psychology.com/ConfirmationBias.pdf
Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
THUNK episode 73 on mental rigor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3uDwNUVieQ
THUNK episode 64 on the argumentative theory of human reason - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cduyyif7BVY