Re books on medical decisions. Nudge. (2009) Thaler and Sunstein, Penguin. (Sunstein is the Frankfurter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard) I’m using this one as part of a seminar on “Stupidity as a model for human cognition”. (Can you tell I’m going on sabbatical next year?) We are using Sternberg’s “Why smart people can be so stupid” as a sort of core for organizing a course based loosely on “Human judgment and decision making”. The students affectionately refer to it as “The stupid course”. ☺ There are six books and the students are responsible to “find the primary source readings” to back up and to question the texts. Tim
_________________________________________________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chairperson of Psychology The College of Idaho 2112 Cleveland Blvd Caldwell, ID 83605 teaching: Bio and neuropsychology, history and systems, general, psychopharmacology [email protected] From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:20 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] teachable moment John, Marie, I have often thought of teaching a course like this, but never have. May I see you syllabi and reading lists to get an idea of what you do? Thanks, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote: Ditto! I'm teaching a senior seminar (Risk and Society) and we just finished reading the Gigerenzer et al (2007) monograph on "Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics". It is an excellent read by the way - one of the most clearly written academic pieces I've read in a long time. I also highly recommend the piece for anyone who is interested in the many forces that cause us to be unable to make medical decisions in an informed way. Here is the NY Times article link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/health/17cancer.html?_r=1&ref=us Marie **************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30 http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: John Kulig [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] teachable moment What a coincidence, I have to share this. I had a test scheduled today in Measurement on Utility, making decisions about test use after cost/benefit analysis. On CNN this morning was the news that US Preventive Services Task Force is NOT recommending routine mammogram testing for women under 50 (unless otherwise high risk). This is based on new data and a cost/benefit analysis. There are benefits to under 50 testing(prevent 1 cancer death for every 1904 women tested), but also costs in terms of extra testing, psychological stress, biopsies, and the false positive rate. So I HAD to get it on the exam. I photocopied 3 articles on the recommendations (two from NYTimes, one from Washington Post) and tacked on a bonus question at the end - asking them to read the articles and see if the decision to reduce testing was made in a manner described in the test. -------------------------- John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 -------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
