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Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
Insights into the brain as a muscle: when depleted it comes less effective. Making choices depletes what is known as executive resources, and "downstream" decisions are affected adversely when we are forced to choose with a fatigued brain. Annotated link
PSYCO452 Minds And Machines - Winter 2007
Michael Dawson course on synthetic (vs analytic) approach in cognitive science. Based on his books Minds and Machines (2004) and Connectionism (2005)
The New Paternalism
Richard thaler and Cass Sunstein articulate an approach to designing social and economic policies that incorporates an understanding of people's cognitive limitations, nudging.
Cognitive Dissonance in Monkeys - The Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall problem: Even when experimenters use elaborate methods of measuring preferences, the results are still suspect if the researchers haven't recognized that the choice during the experiment changes the odds.
Decision Making: Is It All 'Me, Me, Me'?
People act in thier own best interests...but is this assumption really true?
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