Cognitive biases

Cultural / religious biases vs cognitive biases

Framing

Priming

  • hypnotic priming

Moral biases

  • Gender biases in academia
  • Katie Liljenquist (2009) - Clean scent affects generosity and charitable giving
  • Isen and Levin (1972) - 87.5% of participants who had just found a dime in the coin in a phone booth helped a confederate (of the experimenter) who dropped a folder of papers, while only 4% who had found no coin helped.
  • J.M. Darley and C.D. Batson (1973). From Jerusalem to Jericho: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 27, pp. 100–119.

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