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Videos on Judgment and Decision Making
(found, collected, and contributed by members of SJDM, edited by Ulf-Dietrich Reips) |
The *Zimbardo tapes* (Introductory Psychology videos) include one on judgment and
decision making. It has interviews with Kahneman, Tversky, Bazerman, Janis, and others, and
includes demonstrations of heuristics and biases. It is a bit dated, but it is informative. (Scott Highhouse)
The tapes are available as free streaming video here (Bob McCown) |
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Silver medal or Bronze?
When Less is More (Medvec, Madey & Gilovich, 1995).
The "silver" clip |
(Yossi Yassour) |
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There are a number of lectures consisting of powerpoint slides and audio sound tracks
at the following URL:
http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/talks/
Some of the programs available from the above include lectures Michael H. Birnbaum gave
at University of Kiel. Most of those deal with "New Paradoxes", which
are properties implied by decision models that lead to self-contradiction
when combined with data.
Some files that are strictly powerpoint (without audio) are also available there.
Some additional powerpoint shows from recent presentations are available
from the following URL:
http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/birnbaum.htm#presentations
Incidentally, a number of publications are also available for download from the last URL. (Michael H. Birnbaum) |
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Seinfeld and availability/selection bias
Seinfeld's first episode contains some stand-up material. For about 1-2 minutes he talks about the surprising prevalence of lost socks. I use this as an example of selection bias in stats, but could easily be used as example of availability (in short, we THINK we lose socks because the remaining sock reminds us of the lost one, but no such reminder exists for underwear, shirts, pants, etc). I follow with print-screens of websites dedicated to explaining the missing socks mystery (none mentions sample selection).
(note: interestingly Seinfeld invites the audience to imagine socks escaping form the *dryer*, which is where you find the remaining sock...).
(Video available upon request from Uri Simonsohn)
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Fairness and Monty Python
This I actually got from a paper by Robyn Dawes and Dick Thaler (I think). They quoted a scene from Monty Python where a banker is asked for charity. I just looked for it and got the video which I show in class to introduce the topic. In the clip an investment banker behaves exactly the way econ theory predicts we all do (the banker has no disutility from inequality nor failing to reciprocate). It is *not* exaggerated and yet it is funny (i.e. the econ assumption of selfishness is funnily off).
(Video available upon request from Uri Simonsohn)
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"Change Blindness" demos and hindsight bias
Change blindness materials consist of a picture (or video) where something major changes and yet it is surprisingly difficult to figure out what it is.
Change blindness exercises are insight problems, so they have big hindsight bias effects.
Tell half the students what's changing in an image and half what's changing on another. Then they predict the % of students who would guess the answer without being told. Predicted probability is usually around 80%, actual is about 5%.
Note: I think I got the idea for this from this paper: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rweber/Mispredicting_information.pdf
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TED conference has an excellent Web page with a lot of the talks given there archived (among them: Barry Schwartz, Malcom Gladwell, Dan Gilbert, Daniel Dennett ...):
http://www.ted.com
(Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck)
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A science radio show called Radio Lab
All episodes are available on line. The most JDM-relevant episiode is on
Morality (with interviews with Marc Hauser and Josh Greene), and there are
other episodes on memory, deception, and other psychology topics.
www.radiolab.org
(Gretchen Chapman)
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