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Cognitive bias, behavioural models etc. Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:25:57 2010 No.1111693 [Reply] [Original]

I want to know more about why people think and act the way they do.

Which field of study that best address this matter, And for the casual observer, what books would you recommend one to pick up?

just asking out the psychoanalysis and/or economics majors out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:27:57 2010 No.1111703 behavioral economics

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:29:57 2010 No.1111712 >>1111703 any recommended books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:29:57 2010 No.1111713 >psychoanalysis majors wtf

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:30:57 2010 No.1111719 characteristics?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:32:57 2010 No.1111723 >>1111712 Blink

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:33:57 2010 No.1111726 >>1111713 phrasing error. now shoo.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:33:57 2010 No.1111728 neuroscience is the answer, young jedi

Colin !!gfy9BRoK/qr Sat Jun 5 11:36:57 2010 No.1111745

From what I can tell, it's a massive field full of controversy.
Neuroscience, behavioral economics, biology, psychology, evolution.

Personally, I think a good introductory author is Stephen Pinker. His linguistics is solid. His theories blend evolutionary psychology with the computational theory of the mind, but he's not an "Evolutionary Psychologist" (big E big P), so he doesn't overdo the role of evolution. He states that evolution gave us highly adaptable brains, which I like because a lot of Evolutionary Psychologists (big E big P) get tripped up on genetic determinism. Try his book "How the Mind Works", or "The Stuff of Thought" if you're into psycholinguistics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:37:57 2010 No.1111753 >>1111712 You could start with something like "Predictably Irrational" to get a taste.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:38:57 2010 No.1111760 Neuroscience or get the fuck out

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:41:57 2010 No.1111773 File: 24 KB, 330x353, akari.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1111760 > implying neuroscience is anywhere near explaining behavior

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:44:57 2010 No.1111798 more pop-cultury, but still offers good articles from time to time http://youarenotsosmart.wordpress.com/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:47:57 2010 No.1111817 >>1111773 Ah, so you want to study a BS subject like psychology because neuro is too hard for you? faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:51:57 2010 No.1111854 >>1111817 >hard = rewarding enjoy sucking on a million hard dicks, homo.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:54:57 2010 No.1111872 File: 16 KB, 320x320, 1273863829407.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1111854 liberal arts major DETECTED hint: that BS does NOT stand for bachelor of science! :hint

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:55:57 2010 No.1111877 >>1111817 Since everything is made of particles might as well just study physics, then. AKA: you're derping pretty hard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:56:57 2010 No.1111882 check out daniel kahneman and amos tversky

Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:57:57 2010 No.1111898

>>1111877
Nope. You wouldn't be able to do shit if they put a brain in front of you and you were a physics major. Don't get me wrong, neuroscience requires quite a bit of physics, just nowhere near a straight up physics major. Same would happen if you try to put a mathematician in a medical enviorment, he will look like a fucking idiot.

Psychology is a bullshit field and psychologists are not real doctors. HTH.

Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:58:57 2010 No.1111902

almost every tendency or disposition humans have is a product of evolution's influence on us.

Wiki is a nice start I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memory_biases

follow the links, sources, ideas, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:58:57 2010 No.1111904 File: 53 KB, 423x297, 1275713696227.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1111854

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 11:59:57 2010 No.1111909 arent there already enough tier-threads on this board why cant you leave innocent threads alone with your dick-measuring.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:00:57 2010 No.1111911 File: 32 KB, 740x308, purity.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1111872 >>1111817 >>1111760 please don't make me post this again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:01:57 2010 No.1111918 >>1111911 wtf, I dont wear a goatee

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:03:57 2010 No.1111924 >>1111898 >>1111872 >>1111760 I want to say Endowment Effect is in play here, but I hardly think any of you are neuroscientists.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:03:57 2010 No.1111925 >>1111693 >Obama toast God damn, people are stupid. It's a face with a shaved head of hair. Big fucking deal, it's not a picture of Obama.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:05:57 2010 No.1111933 >>1111925 apophenia

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:05:57 2010 No.1111935 Psychoanalysis is bullshit, invented by Freud who's theories are all 100% bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:07:57 2010 No.1111940 >>1111935 >implying you know modern psychoanalysis

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:09:57 2010 No.1111949 >>1111693 Is that Mary Poppins burned on toast?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:09:57 2010 No.1111951 >>1111933 more like pareidolia

Water !962cuLUHAc Sat Jun 5 12:11:57 2010 No.1111960

>>1111911
Really? an XKCD comic strip? a comic specifically made for math majors to feel better about themselves? Hahaha.

Math majors = code monkeys and actuaries.

Sorry timmy, differential algebra isn't going to relieve that patient on the SICU of the Hamartoma in his lungs :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:11:57 2010 No.1111962 >>1111951 right, but subset of apophenia

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:11:57 2010 No.1111965 >>1111949 i'm seeing princess leia. i dunno where they got obama from

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 12:14:57 2010 No.1111974 >>1111965 >>1111949 >>1111925 you're all wrong it's jesus.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 5 13:57:57 2010 No.1112559 I see a bald DJ

>>	TheUnion !loLiTa/hAw Sat Jun 5 14:03:57 2010 No.1112593 >>1111911 the inverse is arranged by relevance

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