Belief and Decision
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Replication studies: Bad copy : Nature News & Comment
For many psychologists, the clearest sign that their field was in trouble came, ironically, from a study about premonition. Daryl Bem, a social psychologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, showed student volunteers 48 words and then abruptly asked them to write down as many as they could remember. Next came a practice session: students were given a random subset of the test words and were asked to type them out.
Priyamvada Natarajan: How Science Works
We hear a lot about American children's poor performance in science.
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The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness'
According to columnist Rex Huppke, there was a recent death that you might have missed.Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein famously did not believe in a supernatural God, and neither do some scientists today. It now appears there may be a good reason for this: thinking analytically dims supernatural beliefs, apparently by opposing the intuitive thought processes that underpin them.
Analytical thinking erodes belief in God - science-in-society - 26 April 2012
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The Berlin Numeracy Test > Home
Decision-making can and must be learned -- new test measures risk intelligence
“Yet this is an important skill that has an enormous influence on many of our decisions,” says psychologist Edward Cokely, who came up with the idea of developing a quick test for this skill at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in 2007. In the intervening five years, he has carried out 21 sub-studies in 15 countries with colleagues from Max Planck Director Gerd Gigerenzer's group at the Institute in Berlin and the Michigan Technological University.
On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came on the market in the early nineties. The drugs, sold under brand names such as Abilify, Seroquel, and Zyprexa, had been tested on schizophrenics in several large clinical trials, all of which had demonstrated a dramatic decrease in the subjects’ psychiatric symptoms.
The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker
T here have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece.
Thinking, Fast and Slow - FT.com
Susanna Siegel, Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification | PhilPapers
Chris Tucker (2009). Perceptual Justification and Warrant by Default.This isn’t an accusation from the right. It’s a friendly warning from Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who, until 2009, considered himself a partisan liberal. In “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt seeks to enrich liberalism, and political discourse generally, with a deeper awareness of human nature.
‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt - NYTimes.com
In a new study, published March 27 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology , Anne Collins and Etienne Koechlin of Ecole Normale Supérieure and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France, examine frontal lobe function using behavioral experiments and computational models of human decision-making.
Creativity and human reasoning during decision-making
Free will has long been a fraught concept among philosophers and theologians.
Is Free Will an Illusion? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
VoI is sometimes distinguished into value of perfect information , also called value of clairvoyance (VoC) , and value of imperfect information . They are closely related to the widely known expected value of perfect information and expected value of sample information . Note that VoI is not necessarily equal to "value of decision situation with perfect information" - "value of current decision situation" as commonly understood.
Value of information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Critical thinking