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PSYC2020 in-class experiments
Week #1:
Week #2: Morality
- Hindsight bias
- Takeaways:
- We think we knew the answer all along even when we didn't/don't.
- Why do people cheat?
- Video: Comfortable cheating
- How we study cheating
- Video: The Matrix Experiment
- Video: The Corruption Experiment
- Takeaways:
- You can study unethical behavior in the lab
- There are some fascinating findings in behavioral ethics social psychology studies.
- Who cheats more?
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- Takeaways:
- We all cheat
- We all cheat about the same
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- Cheating behaviors (you versus average HKU student)
- Video: The Fudge Factor
- Takeaways:
- We lie and yet still think of ourselves as good honest people
- Justifying own unethical behavior
- Experiment: Employee versus manager manipulation
- Unethical judgments depend on context/perspective and individual differences
- You need to understand the social context
- Morality in every day life
- Takeaways:
- Understanding morality is very important for everyday life, in everything we do
- Fundamental attribution error bias
- Morality of self-driving car
- Takeaways:
- Understanding morality is very important for everyday life, in everything we do
- We make moral decisions all the time, even when not realizing it
- A good example, is when faced with having to articulate decision for a machine, very uncomfortable and confusing
- Website: Moral machines project
Resources:
- Dan Ariely's TED talk: Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes)
Week #3: Judgment and Decision Making
- Cognitive illusions
- Akiyoshi Kitaoka
- Judgment and decision making cognitive biases
- Free money experiment
- Bias: Escalation of commitment
- Cooperation versus self-interest
- Heuristics: Availability Heuristic
- Heuristics: Representative Heuristic Bias
- Bias: The decoy effect
- Bias: Ease of Recall Bias
- Bias: Retrievability Bias
- Bias: Framing effects (Prospect Theory)
- Bias: Anchoring effect
- Bias: Action effect
- Theory: Norm Theory (Kahneman & Miller, 1986)
Resources:
- Course reading: Book chapter: Judgment and Decision Making