Session 2 - Decision-making & bias

Additional resources and references

  • The Cognitive Bias Codex
    Explore Wikipedia’s list of 188 cognitive biases, grouped into categories and rendered by John Manoogian III as a radial dendrogram (circle diagram). Category model by Buster Benson.

  • 20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions
    An easy infographic of some common cognitive biases.
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  • Cognitive bias cheat sheet
    An interesting article from Buster Benson on how he developed the categories of cognitive biases shown in the codex above.
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  • What’s the trouble? How doctors think.
    An easy-to-read article in the New Yorker that discusses cognitive bias in doctors. (There are advertisements in the article)
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  • Baron, J. (2008). Thinking and deciding (4th ed.). New York, USA: Cambridge University Press.
  • Chapman, G. B. & Elstein, A. S. (2000). Cognitive processes and biases in medical decision making. In G. B. Chapman & F. A. Sonnenberg (Eds.), Decision making in health care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications (pp. 183-210). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Croskerry, P. (2013). From mindless to mindful practice – cognitive bias and clinical decision making. The New England Journal of Medicine, 368, 2445-2448. doi:10.1056/NEJMp130371
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2011). Heuristic decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 62(1), 451-482. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145346
  • Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Lerner, J. S., Valdesolo, P., & Kassam, K. S. (2015). Emotion and decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 799-823. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043
  • Moeller, M.P., G. Carr, L. Seaver, A. Stredler-Brown, & D. Holzinger, (2013). Best Practices in Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: An International Consensus Statement, The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 18:4. 429-445. doi:10.1093/deafed/ent034
  • Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science, 185(4157), 1124. doi:10.1126/science.185.4157.1124
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