Judgment & Decision Making
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lecture schedule)
| Lecture | Media | Resources (optional) | Lab Handout | Readings (optional unless noted) | |
| judgment | Discovering Psychology: Ch. 11, (outline) | Method: | a nice Handout | list of articles | |
| task demands | systematic data collection | genocide | |||
| how to eat less during Thanksgiving (Klein, WashPost, 09) | |||||
| nudges (Slate) | |||||
| decision making | Applied: juries & stereotypes | pain | |||
| Study Guide | california | ||||
| neuroeconomics new yorker | |||||
| How doctors think (New Yorker) | |||||
| Availability heuristic | |||||
| why do goalies jump during penalties, if it is counterproductive? (see also NYTimes) | |||||
SPARE PPT (SUMMER 06)
Is Alan Iverson really the best player? How do you know? Check out this 2-page commentary by Malcom Gladwell in the New Yorker, on the difficulties of attributing causality when there multiple factors are correlated
example of availability heuristic: why searching the web for medical info makes us think we have a tumor? (slate)
Nova: Mind over Money
USEFUL LINKS
Society for Medical Decision Making
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
for instructors
| self other asymmetry in grades (ToP) |
| Anchoring Heuristic (ToP) |
| Other Heuristics(ToP) |