Innovations in Teaching About Bias and Error in Perception and Decision Making

decision making, heuristics, biases

The importance of heuristics and biases (System 1 and System 2 thinking) and other perceptual limitations has long been recognized by academics and has become of greater interest in the popular press. Nonetheless, the ability to produce durable learning and capability in effectively applying a knowledge of this material in making organizational and personal decisions remains a challenge. Merely awareness of these biases does little to ameliorate their potential disadvantages. We offer two highly engaging cases that have been using successfully for over a decade in better enabling students to apply these concepts to contexts to which they can relate.

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