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  1. "Do we fear the right things?" (http://www.davidmyers.org/fears/) - essay from David Myers published in the APS Observer on judgment biases related to the events of September 11, 2001

  2. "Mass delusions and hysterias" (http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-05/delusions.html) - description of many such cases over the last millennium from the Skeptical Enquirer

  3. "The danger of knowing for sure" (http://www.ratbags.com/skepticism/skepticism.htm) - excellent essay published the day after the 9/11 attacks by Peter Bowditch that links these events with certainty of beliefs - also includes a nice distinction between skepticism and cynicism

  4. "Why bad beliefs don't die" (http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/beliefs.html) - interesting essay on why we are biologically designed to be resistant to change from the Skeptical Enquirer

  5. Health psychology and rehabilitation (http://healthpsych.com/) – Find a large set of general health resources.

  6. Detection of lying (http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040731/bob8.asp) - interesting article in ScienceNews on current research on our ability to detect deception

  7. "Don't tell me, I don't want to know"http://www.mba.yale.edu/news_events/CMS/Articles/5598.shtml) - "Yale School of Management study finds people actively avoid medical diagnoses for illnesses perceived as severe, untreatable"

  8. Flawed self-assessment (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=pspi&content=pspi/5_3) - latest installment from Psychological Science in the Public Interest - a series of good articles on "Flawed self-assessment: Implications for health, education, and the workplace"

  9. "Exploding the self-esteem myth" (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000CB565-F330-11BE-AD0683414B7F0000) - a featured article in the January 2005 issue of Scientific American by Roy Baumeister et al.





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