By Alison Schroeder and Dr. Sara McComb In our last blog, “Describing Collective Cognition,” we outlined DeChurch and Mesmer-Magnus’s unique model of team cognition, which consists of three main constructs: nature, form, and content of cognition (see Table 1). In this blog, we aim to… Read More
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Brain Stimulation
By Marc Resnick We are making advances in non-invasive electronic brain stimulation that continue to amaze me. It is nothing like what happened to Jack Nicholson’s character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The one I want to talk about today has some unique… Read More
Superbowl betting on the coin flip
By Marc Resnick There are two competing decision making biases/heuristics that are pretty common. If you flip a coin five times and it comes up heads every time (which even a fair coin will do once in a while), there are some people that will… Read More
beliefs are hard to change when they are part of our self-image/world view
Marc Resnick (note – Updated 1/6/12) As usual, I read journal articles in groups. Here is a similar paper (ungated) from Dartmouth that looked at why our political views resist evidence to the contrary. Once we get an idea in our head, we don’t like… Read More