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Critical thinking is well and good, but it only really helps if you’re willing & able to change your mind!
-Links for the Curious-
Giving Debiasing Away: Can Psychological Research on Correcting Cognitive Errors Promote Human Welfare? (Lilienfeld et al, 2009) - https://www3.nd.edu/~ghaeffel/Lilienfeld2009%20Perspectives%20on%20Psychological%20Science.pdf
Debiasing (Larrick, 2004) - http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/p7536_readings/larrick_debias.pdf
A User’s Guide to Debiasing (Soll et al, 2013) - http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~kmilkman/Soll_et_al_2013.pdf
The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks (Braman et al, 2012) - http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=faculty_publications
Considering the opposite: a corrective strategy for social judgment (Lord et al, 1984) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6527215
Overcoming Intuition: Metacognitive Difficulty Activates Analytic Reasoning (Alter et al, 2007) - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/526d/fb9f8715d48fa79d0f766caa5cd9151cf074.pdf
The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases (Keysar et al, 2012) - http://mdl.uchicago.edu/sites/keysarlab.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Keysar%202012.pdf
Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence (Kaplan et al, 2016) - nature.com/articles/srep39589
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the PreMortem Technique on Plan Confidence (Veinott et al, 2010) - idl.iscram.org/files/veinott/2010/1049_Veinott_etal2010.pdf
A Scientist-Practitioner Model of Psychological Assessment: Implications for Training, Practice and Research (Spengler et al, 1995) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011000095233009
The effects of perspective-taking on prejudice: the moderating role of self-evaluation (Galinsky & Ku, 2004) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15107159
Debiasing Decisions: Improved Decision Making With a Single Training Intervention (Morwedge et al, 2015) - careymorewedge.com/papers/Morewedgeetal2015DebiasingwithTraining.pdf
LessWrong, an online community & blog archive for fans of debiasing & rationality - lesswrong.com
The Center for Applied Rationality - rationality.org
THUNK - 64. The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason - youtube.com/watch?v=Cduyyif7BVY
THUNK - 86. Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method -
youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-CGN78gdY
Critical thinking is well and good, but it only really helps if you’re willing & able to change your mind!
-Links for the Curious-
Giving Debiasing Away: Can Psychological Research on Correcting Cognitive Errors Promote Human Welfare? (Lilienfeld et al, 2009) - https://www3.nd.edu/~ghaeffel/Lilienfeld2009%20Perspectives%20on%20Psychological%20Science.pdf
Debiasing (Larrick, 2004) - http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/p7536_readings/larrick_debias.pdf
A User’s Guide to Debiasing (Soll et al, 2013) - http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~kmilkman/Soll_et_al_2013.pdf
The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks (Braman et al, 2012) - http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=faculty_publications
Considering the opposite: a corrective strategy for social judgment (Lord et al, 1984) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6527215
Overcoming Intuition: Metacognitive Difficulty Activates Analytic Reasoning (Alter et al, 2007) - pdfs.semanticscholar.org/526d/fb9f8715d48fa79d0f766caa5cd9151cf074.pdf
The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases (Keysar et al, 2012) - http://mdl.uchicago.edu/sites/keysarlab.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Keysar%202012.pdf
Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence (Kaplan et al, 2016) - nature.com/articles/srep39589
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the PreMortem Technique on Plan Confidence (Veinott et al, 2010) - idl.iscram.org/files/veinott/2010/1049_Veinott_etal2010.pdf
A Scientist-Practitioner Model of Psychological Assessment: Implications for Training, Practice and Research (Spengler et al, 1995) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011000095233009
The effects of perspective-taking on prejudice: the moderating role of self-evaluation (Galinsky & Ku, 2004) - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15107159
Debiasing Decisions: Improved Decision Making With a Single Training Intervention (Morwedge et al, 2015) - careymorewedge.com/papers/Morewedgeetal2015DebiasingwithTraining.pdf
LessWrong, an online community & blog archive for fans of debiasing & rationality - lesswrong.com
The Center for Applied Rationality - rationality.org
THUNK - 64. The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason - youtube.com/watch?v=Cduyyif7BVY
THUNK - 86. Cognitive Biases & the Socratic Method -
youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-CGN78gdY
