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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences(Hillsdale
NJ: Erlbaum
1969).question about words: I have slightly altered the original wording
whichreferred to letters in the first and third position of words.negative view of the mind: A prominent German psychologist has beenour most persistent critic. Gerd Gigerenzer
“How to Make CognitiveIllusions Disappear
” European Review of Social Psychology 2 (1991):83–115. Gerd Gigerenzer
“Personal Reflections on Theory andPsychology
” Theory & Psychology 20 (2010): 733–43. Daniel Kahnemanand Amos Tversky
“On the Reality of Cognitive Illusions
” PsychologicalReview 103 (1996): 582–91.offered plausible alternatives: Some examples from many are Valerie F.Reyna and Farrell J. Lloyd
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Risk Perception
Risk Tolerance and Fuzzy-Processing
” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 12 (2006):179–95. Nicholas Epley and Thomas Gilovich
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” Psychological Science 17 (2006): 311–18. NorbertSchwarz et al.
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“Asymmetric Discounting inIntertemporal Choice
” Psychological Science 18 (2007): 516–23.George F. Loewenstein et al.
“Risk as Feelings
” Psychological Bulletin127 (2001): 267–86.Nobel Prize that I received: The prize awarded in economics is namedBank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Itwas first given in 1969. Some physical scientists were not pleased with theaddition of a Nobel Prize in social science
and the distinctive label of theeconomics prize was a compromise.prolonged practice: Herbert Simon and his students at Carnegie Mellon inthe 1980s set the foundations for our understanding of expertise. For anexcellent popular introduction to the subject
see Joshua Foer