Whereas the best mental models will help you hone and polish your critical thinking skills, there exists a set of bad mental models that can lead you down the garden path into trouble — or worse. From bigotry to a long list of psychological biases, to cognitive distortions, logical fallacies, and beyond — check out the submenu dropdown for a look at some of the worse approaches to thinking and decision-making out there, so you can do the work required to avoid (or at least mitigate) them as much as possible.