Oct 2, 2018
This episode features:
-Why men perceive more sexuality in women’s behavior than women say they intend
-Several opportunities to test your own biases
-Examples of how both evolutionary psychologists and social psychologists have explained bias the wrong way
-Why it’s unsatisfactory to say that we have false beliefs in order to “make ourselves feel good”
-Why do people ignore basic probability theory
-Why are people bad at abstract logic
-How to make people much better at logic problems
-An explanation of the famous “Linda Problem”
-References-
Apply Psychology:
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Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31(3), 187-276.
Cosmides, L., Barrett, H. C., & Tooby, J. (2010). Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 200914623.
Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (2000). No interpretation without representation: The role of domain-specific representations and inferences in the Wason selection task. Cognition, 77(1), 1-79.
Haselton, M. G., & Buss, D. M. (2000). Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 81–91
Haselton, M. G., Nettle, D., & Murray, D. R. (2015). The evolution of cognitive bias. The handbook of evolutionary psychology, 1-20.
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. London: Penguin Books.
Perilloux, C., & Kurzban, R. (2015). Do men overperceive women’s sexual interest?. Psychological Science, 26(1), 70-77.
Check This Rec:
Carroll, S. M. (2018). Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing?. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02231.