I’m currently taking a cognitive psychology class, and will be designing and conducting a research project in the field — and I’d like to do it on human judgment, specifically heuristics and biases. I’m currently doing preliminary research to come up with a more specific topic to base my project on, and I figured Less Wrong would be the place to come to find questions about flawed human judgment. So: any ideas?
(I’ll probably be using these ideas mostly as guidelines for forming my research question, since I doubt it would be academically honest to take them outright. The study will probably take the form of a questionnaire or online survey, but experimental manipulation is certainly possible and it might be possible to make use of other psych department resources.)
Ideas for heuristics and biases research topic?
Hey Less Wrong,
I’m currently taking a cognitive psychology class, and will be designing and conducting a research project in the field — and I’d like to do it on human judgment, specifically heuristics and biases. I’m currently doing preliminary research to come up with a more specific topic to base my project on, and I figured Less Wrong would be the place to come to find questions about flawed human judgment. So: any ideas?
(I’ll probably be using these ideas mostly as guidelines for forming my research question, since I doubt it would be academically honest to take them outright. The study will probably take the form of a questionnaire or online survey, but experimental manipulation is certainly possible and it might be possible to make use of other psych department resources.)