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Asymmetries for moral responsibility
This paper by Knobe and Doris is pretty interesting. Side-effect asymmetry (Knobe effect): Knobe (2003a) ran a simple experiment that addresses this issue. Each subject was randomly assigned to one o… more →
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End of semester thoughts
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Phil wrote 3 days ago: Looking at a stack of papers I need to grade and yet not feeling the energy to do so. Late night cla … more →
Links for an Epic Post
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gerrycanavan wrote 2 weeks ago: * The Great Game: an experiment in interactive fiction. Looks pretty promising; I voted for “L … more →
Oh dear - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Greg wrote 2 weeks ago: I bought this on impulse on the way to Canada – it was 4 for 3, and I had the three books I wa … more →
Why we fail to act (sins of complicity)
Phil wrote 3 weeks ago: In the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre we are now hearing evidence of a very troubled man–troubl … more →
How to Pick an Idea
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vickie wrote 1 month ago: “Failure isn’t your biggest problem. Working on something you don’t care about is … more →
Previous Post
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Phil wrote 1 month ago: A friend sent me a book review of Philip Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect by a therapist and form … more →
Health Care and our Psychological Shortcomings
Michael wrote 3 months ago: I thought this was a great article by James Surowiecki in today’s New Yorker (and see some goo … more →
Asymmetries for moral responsibility
jason wrote 4 months ago: This paper by Knobe and Doris is pretty interesting. Side-effect asymmetry (Knobe effect): Knobe (2 … more →
Behavioral economics and innovation
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consultaglobal wrote 5 months ago: “The emerging field of behavioral economics offers a radically different view of how people a … more →
Deaths in threes
jason wrote 5 months ago: Apparently they didn’t read my post. … more →
Proudly systematically biased
jason wrote 6 months ago: Optimists make prediction errors in the direction of thinking things will work out better than they … more →
Fiction cognition
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Elizabeth wrote 6 months ago: The comments on Monday’s complaint about the hero in WATERSMEET facing insufficient consequences for … more →
Critical Thinking And Beliefs
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Mark T. Market wrote 7 months ago: What kinds of belief are there? How can critical thinking define your beliefs? Jeffrey Ellis writes … more →
Parenting advice
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jason wrote 8 months ago: I think it is important to expose kids to a lot of different ideas. If you are Christian, you shoul … more →
Poker And Critical Thinking
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Mark T. Market wrote 8 months ago: Poker, especially its variant Texas Hold ‘em is a very popular game around the world these day … more →
Nick Kristof gets a B- social psych, and an incomplete in media studies
Sanjay Srivastava wrote 8 months ago: In today’s NYT, Nicholas Kristof writes about the implications of people choosing their own me … more →
Finally, a use for the heuristics and biases literature
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Sanjay Srivastava wrote 8 months ago: How do you make a video game opponent realistically stupid? A lot of attention in the artificial int … more →
Physiology Phriday: Anticipation and Anxiety
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Phil wrote 9 months ago: Anticipation and its relationship to anxiety. This week we have been thinking about how we evaluate … more →
Expectations and the will
Phil wrote 9 months ago: We’ve been thinking a bit about expectations this week. Now, when our expectations fail to be … more →
