The document discusses several topics related to cognitive psychology and rationality, including priming, self-deception, memory and justification, and the bystander effect. It provides examples showing how people's decisions and justifications can be influenced by subtle contextual factors like the wording of a question or the presence of others. The document suggests people are inclined to discard inconsistencies and fool themselves to maintain a positive self-image.

11. Where is this course heading anyway?

12. Economics Artificial Intelligence Management Science Pillars of rationality Search Symbols Enumeration Logic Expected Utility Transitive ordering of alternatives Invariance Continuity Maximizing & satisficing Game theory Mathematical programming Equilibrium Inference reasoning

19. What Google doesn ’t know

22. “ Intent drives search ” The chasm between computer processing & human information processing.

29. Finding names for fathers and mothers

30. Naming plausible heads of state

34. Rating lawyers as…

45. Jedi Conclusion A concept will prime related concepts, and these primed, active, concepts, will guide subsequent thought & behavior

50. seconds Priming #4 Automatic effects on Behavior (Bargh, Chen, Burrows, 1996, Study 2) 3. Time how long it takes subject to walk to elevator (9.75 m)?

52. Jedi conclusion Humans will easily, automatically, unconsciously discard inconsistencies, lack of information, and contradictions, so as not to feel bad about themselves

53. Split brain experiment, (ii) The LEFT hemisphere has language capabilities. In subjects with lesions separating the hemispheres, it is possible to present them requests to the RIGHT hemisphere, which the left hemisphere has no way of obtaining the information. After the subjects executed the requests, they were asked why they were doing what they were doing. What was their response?

55. Expectations drive perception: BP#91

72. Regret & psychological knapsack?

74. Knapsack problem of a truck driver ? Capacity: 10 meters 9 meters, $111/m 3 meters, $100/m 5 meters, $100/m 2 meters, $100/m