Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Video Links

• Gerd Gigerenzer - Selection of Heuristics
  Decision researcher Gigerenzer explores what happens when more than one heuristic could be applied in a given situation.

• Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
  A brief animated video that describes deductive reasoning and how it compares to inductive reasoning.

• We’re all Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
  Duke professor Dan Ariely presents examples of cognitive illusions.

Audio Links

• As the Facts Win Out, Vaccinations May, Too.
  The anti-vaccination movement is built on a failure of deductive reasoning, discussed in this story on All Things Considered. Seth Mnookin, author of the book The Panic Virus, is interviewed.

• The Surprising Strengths of the Middle-Aged Brain.
  Inductive reasoning may be one of the skills that improves as we age, according to a recent book by New York Times health and medical science editor Barbara Strauch. This Fresh Air interview with Strauch points out the things that get better as we get older, as well as the things that don’t.

• Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things.
  Decision framing may be at the heart of financial misbehavior, according to research discussed in this All Things Considered report.

Web Resources

• Logic Problems
  Just for fun, a page of “Logic Problems” to brighten your students’ day.
  Follow-up exercise: Assign a logic problem to your students and have them attempt to solve it. What types of formal reasoning are used?

• The Society for Judgment and Decision Making
  The home page of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, including a number of useful links to related academic and commercial sites.
  Follow-up exercise: Have students check out the related links on “humor?” to prove that cognitive psychology isn’t always serious.

• The Prisoner’s Dilemma game
  A decision-making game from John H. Krantz of Hanover College, which demonstrates the importance of cooperation and competition in decisions. Students familiar with gaming may find this exercise interesting