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  1. Bounded Rationality (http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/5_29_99/bob2.htm) – Read an interesting article from ScienceNews (1999) on decision-making heuristics.

  2. Counterfactual thinking (http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~roese/cf/) – What if I had just …. Read more about this familiar phenomenon at this research site maintained by Neal Roese.

  3. Power of coincidence (http://www.davidmyers.org/coincidence/) - interesting essay from David Myers

  4. Extrasensory perception (http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=15) - also from David Myers, a nice research-based analysis of claims of ESP

  5. "Risky Business" (http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2843/2_24/60302606/print.jhtml) - nice article (2000) from Skeptical Inquirer on the vividness effect and the media

  6. Criminal profiling (http://www.criminalprofiling.ch/) - Swiss Criminal Profiling Scientific Research Site - contains articles, types of profiling, case analyses and more

  7. Two criminal profiling approaches (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/forensic_psychology/26583) - interesting article (1999) contrasting the two approaches

  8. Find Hidden Bias (http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html) - the Southern Poverty Law Center has put together an extensive website (Tolerance.org) that includes this series of Implicit Association Tests revealing possible biases towards Arab Muslims, Asian Americans, body image and more. Explore the entire site; a lot of interesting examples and material to be found there.

  9. "Guidelines for psychologists addressing recovered memories" (http://www.cpa.ca/cpasite/userfiles/Documents/publications/Recovered%20memory.pdf) - a publication of the Canadian Psychological Association

  10. "Innocence Lost: The Plea" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/) - PBS Frontline show on the case of preschool workers in North Carolina accused of child sexual abuse

  11. False Memory Syndrome Foundation (http://www.fmsfonline.org/)

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

  13. When is more better? (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1872) - interesting article in the APS Observer (2005) about when we perceive more to be better and by how much

  14. "False beliefs about fattening foods can have healthy consequences" (http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68420,00.html) - Here is a popular press story of a recently published article by Loftus and colleagues in which they use a false feedback technique to convince dieters that they don't like strawberry ice cream.





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