Seminar of Cognitive Science - Lenka Kostovičová (23.10.2018)
Tuesday 23.10.2018 at 16:30, Lecture room I/9
Mgr. Lenka Kostovičová, PhD. (Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University & Center for social and psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences):
Debiasing: improving judgments and choices
Abstrakt:
From uncritical preference for default options to epistemically suspect beliefs, biased reasoning and decision making leads to costly errors and severe consequences across all life domains. Cognitive biases are well documented, and we already know a lot about their causes. Yet, finding effective interventions still remains a huge scientific challenge since early attempts met with little success. We will discuss several promising ways how to enhance rationality, such as mental simulation, choice architecture or thinking in a foreign language.