Human Cognition

Draft - 1.1 Initiated 7/8/04  Updated 05/21/12

Purpose:

Human cognition is central to clinical decision making. Clinical information involves histories that can be biased by the manner in which questions are asked, vague clinical signs that are assessed with several senses and diagnostic laboratory tests that are not perfect. If clinicians have a fundamental understanding of the process of cognition and inherent weaknesses in the process, they will be better able to compensate for weaknesses in this process and arrive at better clinical decisions in the long run. The purpose of this webpage is to provide a collection of links to on-line materials.

Bias

blogs:

• Overcoming Bias: Future Humanity Institute

  • The cognitive architecture of bias (1/3/07)

Behavioral Economics

Ariely, Dan

• Predictably Irrational  - Amazon

Cialidini, Robert B. - wiki

• Influence: Science and Practice  - Amazon
• Influence at Work

Frank, Robert H. - Cornell site

• The Economic Naturalist: in search of explanations for everyday enigmas, 2007 - Amazon
• The Wealth Report - WSJ column blog

Gintis, Herbert

• papers

Sutherland, Rory (UK Adman)

• blog
• Spectator column
• TED video: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
  • CNN interview - A UK 'Mad man': Ads can do good

texts:

• Neural Predictors of Purchases (B Knutson, S Rick, G. E Wimmer, D Prelec, G Loewenstein, Neuron, 53:147-156, 1/07)
• The Marketplace of Perceptions Behavioral economics explains why we procrastinate, buy, borrow, and grab chocolate on the spur of the moment.
• Tightwads and Spendthrifts S Rick, C Cryder, GF Loewenstein. Department of Social and Decision Sciences , Carnegie Mellon University
• The Role of Emotion in Economic Behavior S Rick, GF Loewenstein. Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
• Introduction to Economic Analysis

books:

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, 2009 (RH Thaler, CR Sunstein) - Amazon
  • book website

• Brelsford, Theodore (Candler School of Theology, Emory U)
  • Lessons for Religious Education from Cognitive Science of Religion (Religious Education, 100(2):174-191, Spr 2005)
• Newberg, Andrew, Assoc Prof Radiology & Psychiatry, U Penn
  • publications
    • The neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena: Or why God doesn't use biostatistics (Zygon 40(2):469-489)
  • Andrew Newberg on religion and the brain Neurophilosophy blog, 8/8/06
• Schmid, D. Neil (Dept of philosophy and religion, NCSU)
  • Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion - bibliography

PSYC 480.3 Psychology of Beliefs (DJ Schneider, Rice)

• Links
• Reading List

blogs:

• TCSDaily: Technology Commerce Society
  • Two Strategies for Avoiding Truth (Arnold King, 1/5/07)

Wikipedia:

• Relationship between religion and science

Change

• Switch: How to change things when change is hard - Amazon
  • Heath brothers - book website 
  • Make Changes That Last (Parade, 1/3/10)
  • Fast Company Dan Heath Open Forum

Cognition

Anenberg Project

• The Mind: Teaching Modules

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - TOC

Cognitive Science Program - University of Arizona<

• Decision making
• Learning

Decision Education Foundation

Functional MRI Research Center - Columbia U

• About fMRI - references
• Selected fMRI Publications/Abstracts

Functional MRI: Methods and Applications (Stuart Clare, 1997 Phd thesis index)

ICDS: Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences (U Oregon)

Individual Differences in Reasoning: Implications for the Rationality Debate? (KE Stanovich, RF West)
bbs.stanovich.html on ftp.princeton.edu

Journal of Judgment and Decision Making - open access

Managing decision - priority - mental error & on-line business & legal research - AODPM - Association of Professional Decision Makers

• Avoiding Mental Error
• Errors in Human Cognition: Quotes and paraphrases of noted psychologists and authors

metacognition

• Metacognition
• metacognition
• metacognition

Neuroeconomics at Caltech - The Camerer Lab

• papers

Newsome Lab - Stanford

• A general mechanism for decision-making in the human brain? TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 9(2):41-43, pdf.

Perceptual Science Group (MIT)

The Great Debate: Genes, Memes, Minds

people:

• Ariely, Dan
  • Predictably Irrational - book website - Amazon
• Brown, Jeff, Mark Fenske
  • The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success - Amazon
    • book website
• Dweck, Carol
  • Mindset: The new psychology of success, 2006 - Amazon
    • book website
• Restak, Richard
  • Think Smart - Amazon
• Rock, David - blog
  • resources
    • A brain-based approach to coaching - pdf
  • Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long - Amazon
    • review - New brain research part 10: David Rock's Your Brain at Work (4/26/10)
    • Open Forum - Get Inside Your Head: How Knowledge of Your Brain Can Make You a Better Leader (6/15/10)
    • Google presentation

Cognitive Function and Decision making

• Changing Minds
  
  • Theories - Decision Errors
• Psych Central - List of cognitive biases
• Wikipedia - list of cognitive biases

Cognitive Illusions

• Beliefs (DJ Schneider, Rice U)
  • Cognitive Factors Underlying Anomalous Beliefs
• Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics and Climate Prediction (Neville Nicholls, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 80(7):1385-1397, 1999  pdf)

http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/clips2001/modules/nicholls.pdf

Cognitive Load - wikipedia

• Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load - Amazon
  • review - Performance Improvement 45(9):46-47,2006 pdf

Complex Adaptive Systems - wiki

• Complex Adaptive Systems and the Diffusion of Innovation (The Public Sector Innovation Journal, EM Rogers, et al. pdf  )

Creativity / Diffusion of Innovations

De Bono, Edward

Robinson, Sir Ken

• TED bio Do schools kill creativity?

Rogers, Everett M. Wikipedia

• Diffusion of Innovations, 5^th ed (2003, Amazon)
• Wikipedia

Critical Thinking - wiki

• Critical Thinking on the Web (Austhink, Tim van Gelder)
• Critical Thinking Web - open courseware on critical thinking, logic and creativity
• Foundation for Critical Thinking
  • The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Tools and Concepts - limited pdf
• Hazlitt, Henry - wiki
  • The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt (includes "The Art of Thinking")
  • Thinking as a Science, 1916 - pdf
• books:
  • Asking the right questions: A guide to critical thinking, 9^th ed MN Browne, SM Keeley - 8^th ed on-line
  • Critical Thinking, BN Moore, R Parker

Decision Analysis

• Classification Tree in Excel
• Decision Analysis in Healthcare - George Mason University
• DAS - Decision Analysis Society
• Decision Analysis Software - Decision Analysis Society
• Decision Theory and Decision Trees - MindTools
• Decision tree - wiki
• kdnuggets-classification-decision-tree
• Lumenaut

texts:

• Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis, 2nd ed. 1997  RT Clemen  Amazon

Emotional Intelligence

"amygdala hijacking" - fight or flight

• Amygdala hijacking - Don't let it happen to you - youTube
• Anger: Managing the amygala hijack (Life at the Bar blog 5/11/07)
• Do you know what's holding you back? - pdf
• Emotional Intelligence - Stop Amygdala Hijacking (S Horowitz, UMass Family Business Center)

Goleman, Daniel

• Social Intelligence, 2006 Amazon

Mayer, John D. - University of New Hampshire

• Emotional Intelligence Information
  • Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications (Psychological Inquiry, 15(3):197-215, 2004 pdf)

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (Steve Hein)

• Critical review of Daniel Goleman (html)

Smart Marriages

Framing:

• Framing Science (Michael Nisbett blog)
  • What is Framing?
  • Popular Science vs. Framing
• Prospect theory
  • Threat . . . or Opportunity? (6/11/07, Bob Sutton Harvard Business on-line)
  • wiki
• Science & Politics
  • One-Stop Shopping for the Framing Science Debate (4/20/07)

• Graphic Design Basics
  • layout
  • rules
• About.com - links
  • Graphic Design Basics
  • Graphic Design Guidelines - Rules of Good Design and Layout
• Write Design On-line
  • rules

Knowledge Management

AOK - Association of Knowledgework

Gurteen - The Gurteen Knowledge Website - blog

• KM weblogs list
• Measures, targets and Rewards

KFTF - Keeping Found Things Found (The Information School, U Wash)

• projects
• publications
  • Keeping Found Things Found on the Web, 2001 (pdf)
  • Keeping Found Things Found and other challenges of Personal Information Management (ppt)
• resources

UC Berkeley School of Information

• publications

texts:

• Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages, 2007 (Alex Wright) - (Amazon)
  • review - The Hidden History of Information Management (boxes and arrows, 9/11/07)
• How Much Information 2003? (UC Berkeley School of Information)
  • Executive Summary
• KFTF - Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management, 2007   (Amazon)

courses:

• Five Weeks to a Social Library (on-line course for librarians)

people:

• Wurman, Richard Saul - wiki
  • Information Anxiety
  • 19-20-21
  • TED
  • Understanding USA

blogs:

• Findability.org (Peter Morville, Semantic Studios)
• How to Save the World (Dave Pollard)
  • Personal Knowledge Management (1/3/04)
• InfoSpaces
• Personal InfoCloud (Thomas Vander Wal - InfoCloud Solutions)
• Tomorrow's Professor Blog
  • Death to the Syllabus (11/29/07)

citeulike:

• Group - Personal-Information-Management - library

wiki:

• knowledge
• personal information management
• personal knowledge management

Alfie Kohn

• articles
  • Challenging Students . . . And How to Have More of Them (PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 11/04)

ALL - Accelerated Learning Laboratory

Autodidactic Press Center for the Study of Learning - Georgetown Medical Center

Educause Review

• The Psychology of Learning Environment 41(6):60-75, 2006 html pdf

• The Future of Higher Education 41(4):72-73, 2006 html pdf

• Design of the Learning Space: Learning and Design Principles 40(4):16-28, 2005 html pdf

expertise:

• Ericsson, K. Anders Psychology, Florida State U.
  • Expert Performance and Deliberate Practice

Higher Education Academy (UK)

Information on Self-Efficacy - Bandura

Irreverent Commentary on the State of Education in America Today (The Irascible Professor - Mark H. Shapiro)

learning style:

• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (BA Soloman, RM Felder, NC State)

New Horizons for Learning

Organizational & Regional Learning, Innovative Systems and Evolutionary Theory - Krumme, U Wash

Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina

taxonomy of educational objectives

• Bloom's Taxonomy: A New Look at an Old Standby (pdf doc)
  • MCQs and Bloom's Taxonomy - Designing and Managing Multiple Choice Questions

• Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom 1956)

• Marzano's New Taxonomy (pdf)

TIP - Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database

websites:

• How People Learn - PennState

books:

• Educational Psychology: A Practical Approach (on-line text E Vockell, Purdue)
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000, Natl Academy of Sciences)
• How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice - online reading format
  • online reading format (not expanded)
• Outliers: The story of success, 2008 (Malcolm Gladwell) - Amazon
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, 2008 (Geoff Calvin) - Amazon
• The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown. Here's how, 2009 (Daniel Coyle) - Amazon
  • book website
  • review - BlogCritics Books 6/6/09
• The Back of the Napkin
  • blog
• Turning Learning Right Side Up
• What the Best College Teachers Do, 2004 (Ken Bain) - Amazon
  • notes - BYU Center for Instructional Design

people:

• Clark, Don - Performance, Learning, Leadership, & Knowledge
  • Learning
    • Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Learning, Performance, and Knowledge Reading List
  • The Art and Science of Leadership
• Ericsson,
• Gardner, Howard
  • Five Minds for the Future - Amazon
• Gladwell, Malcolm
  • A gift or hard graft? (Outlier extract, Guardian, 11/15/08)
• Merrill, M. David
• Nelson, George D. (Pinky)
  • North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership - staff
• Senge, Peter
  • The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, 2008 - Amazon
  • The Fifth Discipline
    • review
    • reviews
  • peter senge and the learning organization - html - infed
  • Understanding your mental models can help sharpen PM skills (TechRepublic, 4/14/03)
• Smith, Frank The Book of Learning and Forgetting
• Weinstein, Claire, Educ Psychology, U Texas at Austin 2nd listing

blogs:

• Learning at Light Speed Weblog
• SMX Matrix Blog
  • SMX Spotlight - 6 Keys to Learning | Study Matrix (4/3/08)
• The Learning Circuits Blog
  • Convergence Learning (12/10/06)

wiki:

• Accelerated language learning
• Moodle - e-learning software platform (Martin Dougiamas)
• Compendium of good practice in leadership and management development - UN System Staff College Wiki TOC

Logic, Rationality and Politics

blogs:

• Prometheus
  • A new article (4/17/06)  pdf

meditation:

• Mindfulness in Plain English (Venerable Henepola Gunaratana)

Music:

• Remo - HealthRythyms

• The Sound of Mathematics (Daniel Cummerow)

• Gawande, Atul - wiki
  • People to Watch in 2010 - The Bayesian Heresy blog 1/10/10
  • The Checklist Manifesto, 2009 - Amazon
    • "Do-confirm" for common, "Read-do" for unusual, 5-9 items (working memory), simple and exact words common to users, disciplined application at "pause points"
    • articles
    • review - KevinMD.com blog 2/24/10
  • The Unlikely Writer, 2009 - Harvard Magazine
  • WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives
  • other:
    • 'Airline pilot' protocols in finance, 2010 (Financial Times, 1/16)
    • The Checklist - Value Investing World blog 1/14/09
      • An investing principles checklist from Poor Charlie 12/10/07
• US HHS - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Patient Safety Primer
  • Checklists

• Chapt 5: Motivating students to learn
• Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy and Commitment (KW Thomas)
• St. John, Richard - 8 to Be Great
  • 6 minute talk
  • TED Talk - Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

• Becoming a Brilliant Star/a> - WG Huitt, Valdosta State U

• Foresight

  • Mental Capital and Well Being

• Positive Psychology Center, U Penn, Martin Seligman
  
  • Authentic Happiness
  • Readings and Videos of Positive Psychology
• 
  
people:
• Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly - Quality of Life Center, Positive Psychology, Claremont Graduate University
  • Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life, 1998 (Amazon)
  • TED talk - Creativity, fulfillment and flow - 2nd site
  • book review

• Emmons, RA, UC Davis

  • Highlights from the Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness

• Gilbert, Dan

  • Stumbling on Happiness - Amazon TED Talk - Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy? (2004) - bio
  • TED Talk - Exploring the frontiers of happiness (2005)

• Peterson, Chris

  • A Primer in Positive Psychology, 2006   Amazon

  • Coaching Toward Happiness

• Seligman, Martin

  • TED talk: What positive psychology can help you become (2004) - bio

• wiki:
  • flow (psychology)
  • gratitude
  • positive psychology
• blogs:
  • Self Help Collective - Top 10 Fears

Problem Solving:

• TEPS - Dartmouth Project for teaching engineering problem solving
  • Engineering Problem Solving for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education by Ellen Frye - TOC
  • What is engineering problem solving?
• Engineering Subject Centre
  • Problems and problem solving
• Mindtools - Problem Solving
  • TRIZ
    • 40 inventive principles with examples
• Problem Oriented Engineering wiki
• Seven steps to problem solving
• text:
  • Solution Engineering: Choosing the Right Problem Solving Approach (Fred Nickols, Quality Progress, 1/97)
  • What engineers know (JC Pitt, Techne 5(3), spring 2001)
• wiki:
  • problem solving
  • engineering

Psychology of Science:

• Feist, Gregory J.
  • The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind, 2006 (Yale press book website) Amazon
    • JAMA 296(1) review
    • Science 313:1390-1391, 2006 review
    • The Skeptical Inquirer - American Scientist review
      • author interview
• ISPST - International Society for the Psychology of Science & Technology
  • books
  • researchers
• scientific cognition
• texts:
  • Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Science: Recent Research and Its Implications (Current Directions in Psychological Science 7(5):150-154, 1998)
• blog:
  • Overcoming Bias
    • The Beauty of Settled Science (3/24/08)
• Wikipedia: psychology of science

Relationships:

• PREP
• Smart Marriages

Texts:

• Singles Going Steady (Salon, 3/7/07)

Self:

• self-efficacy
  • Information on Self-efficacy: A community of scholars
    • Concept analysis of self-efficacy (nursing science, M Kear, 2000)
  • Self-efficacy: The exercise of control, 1997 A Bandura Amazon
    • chapter outlines
  • Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Adolescents, 2006 (some chapters on-line)
  • wiki
  • illusion of control - wiki
• self-insight, self-assessment
  • SaSI - Self and Social Insight Lab (D Dunning, Cornell)
    • Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself - Amazon
    • Unskilled and unaware of it - abstract
    • Why the unskilled are unaware - abstract
    • Bob Sutton blog post (10/27/09)

Social Networking

• if:book - The Institute for the Future of the Book

Systems Dynamics / Modeling / Thinking / Analysis:

• A curriculum for cybernetics and systems theory (AB Scrivener)
• C. West Churchman - wiki
  • The Systems Approach
• dancing with systems
• isee systems (STELLA)
• Principia Cybernetica Web
  • Introduction to Cybernetics
• systems engineering:
  • MIT Open Courseware - systems engineering
    • readings - lecture notes
• systems thinking - wiki
• systems theory - wiki
• Software for Demonstrating Complex Adaptive Systems (R Goldstone, Indiana U)
• books:
  • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (GM Weinberg, author's writing blog consulting blog), Amazon
    • blog review (4/20/06)
• blog
  • Ackoff Collaboratory - center weblog
  • Making Sense with Facilitated Systems
  • Systems Thinking Perspective Project (static)
• wiki
  • C. West Churchman
  • JW Forrester
  • HT Odum
  • Ilya Prigogine
  • Systems theory

Thinking:

• people:
  • Bevelin, Peter
    • Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger - publisher
      • interview 07 - pdf
      • interview 09 - pdf  html

Daylight: Is it in the eye of the beholder? by Kevin P. McGuire

http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp028.htm

• Mixing Memory
  • People Prefer Curves (1/20/07)
  • The Cognitive Science of Art: Goals and Motivations of Neuroaesthetics (7/13/06)
  • The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3 (7/15/06)
    • The Science of Art (pdf)
    • Is Art Lawful (html)

People:

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

• Adams, John - Risk in a Hypermobile World  - Prof emeritus, U Col of London Dept Geography
  • Blog
  • Cross-thinking about sustainability: Hypermobility - a challenge to governance (pdf)
• Bandura, Albert, Stanford
  • Albert Bandura: The Man and his Contributions to Educational Psychology (pdf)
  • biographical sketch
  • papers
  • wiki
• Bogdan, Radu - phil prof, Tulane
  • Minding Minds: Evolving a reflexive mind by interpreting others, 2003 (Amazon)
    • review
    • paper
• Buchanan, Mark - physicist, complexity science - physical patterns that govern our world
  • The Social Atom
  • Meltdown modelling (Nature 460(6), 2009)
• Camerer, Colin F. CalTech
  • Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making (Science 310(5754):1680-1683, 2005)
  • Neuroeconomics at CalTech - The Camerer Lab
• Cohen, Johnathan D., Prof psychology, Princeton
• Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
• Damasio, Antonio R.
• Dennett, Daniel
  • Breaking the Spell - youtube
• Fischhoff, Baruch, U Professor, Dept Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon
  • CIS-HDGC - Center for the Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change
  • Center for Risk Perception and Communication
  • Scientifically Sound Pandemic Risk Communication, 2005 (pdf)
• Frederick, Shane - Asst Prof Mgmt Sci, Sloan School of Mgmt, MIT
  • Publications
    • Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making (pdf)
• Gilbert, Daniel - Professor, Dept Psychology, Harvard
  • blog - Stumbling on Happiness
  • publications
  • Stumbling on Happiness, 2006 (Amazon) book website
    • interview - Powells
  • Happiness - wikipedia
  • Stumbling on Happiness - wiki
• Groopman, Jerome - blog
  • How Doctor's Think - Amazon
    • How Doctors Think - Chapter 1 - (3/22/07)DB's Medical Rants
• Haidt, Jonathan Assoc Prof of Psychology, U Virginia
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005- Amazon
    • How to become happier
    • Recommended reading
• Johnson, Eric J. Columbia Business School
• LeDoux, Joseph - Lab, Center for Neural Science, New York U
  • Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher
  • The Emotional Brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life
• Marcus, Gary
  • Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind - Amazon
  • book blog
• May, Chris, grad student, U Pittsburgh Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• McNeill, JR
  • UNjobs webpage
• Medina, John
  • Brain Rules - the rules
• Montague, Read - American Scientist interview
  • Your Brain is (Almost) Perfect: How we make decisions  Amazon  **
• Pollock, John L.
  • Publications
• Postman, Neil
  • Teaching as a Subversive Activity
  • The legacy of Neil Postman (College Quarterly 7(1), 2004)
• Quartz, Steven R.
  • Cultural biology presentation - index
  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
  • Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are Amazon
• Shermer, Michael - wiki
  • The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (2011) - Amazon
  • The Mind of The Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics - Amazon
• Slovic, Paul, U Oregon
  • Decision Research
    • Climate Change
  • wiki bio
    • heuristics
• Tallis, Raymond
  • review
  • Sokal and Bricmont: Is this the beginning of the end of the dark ages in the humanities? PN Review, no. 128, June 1999
  • Wikipedia
• Whybrow, Peter C., Prof. Psychiatry, Institute Director, UCLA
  • American Mania: When More is not enough Amazon
    • Rules of T.O.M - Toward Optimum Mindfulness
    • interview - Q&A / PETER C. WHYBROW, Author: 'Everybody has been helter-skelter heading for the bottom line' Atlanta Journal Constitution 1/30/05
    • Am J Psychiatry review
    • booknotes review
    • Guardian review
  • Mood Disorders at the Turn of the Century: An Expert Interview With Peter C. Whybrow, MD
  • Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
• Zimbardo, Phillip Prof Emeritus, Stanford wikipedia
  • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil  Amazon
  • Psychology Matters - APA

Papers:

• Battling Bad Behavior (The Scientist 20(2):51, 2/06, 2nd)
• fMRI Study of Decision Making under Uncertainty (html)
• Getting Inside Your Head; As “Neuro” Goes Mainstream, Big Business Hopes to Decode the Brain's Secrets (Commercial Alert, 10/17/05) - OD
• Neural Systems Responding to Degrees of Uncertainty in Human Decision-Making (Science 310(5754):1680-1683, html)
• On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect (Science 311(5673):1005-1007)
• Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions (New Scientist 2/16/06)
• The Political Brain (Scientific American, 6/26/06)

Books: (American Scientist reviews by issue)

• Annual Review of Neuroscience
• Influence: Science and Practice, 4th Edition. (2000, Robert Cialdini, Amazon)
• Information Science (David G. Luenberger, 2006, Amazon)
• Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life (2005, Steven Johnson, Amazon)
  • review - Guardian
  • review - New York Times
  • review - Neuromarketing blog
• The Ethical Brain
  • review - The Volokh Conspiracy blog
• The Feeling of What Happens
  • review - William Calvin
• The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
  • The Skeptical Inquirer - American Scientist review
• The Science of Influence: How to get anyone to say "yes" in 8 minutes or less (2004, Kevin Hogan, Amazon)

Classes:

• HPS/PL 133: Philosophy and Neuroscience (Steven Quartz)
• PSYC 396H - Honors Proseminar - Cognitive Neuroscience of Decision-Making and Social Reasoning (Alan Sanfey, U Arizona)
• Soc 335 The Sociology of Advertising 2003  (Stephen Papson, St. Lawrence U) - OD

Web materials:

• The history of audio-visual entrainment - html

Press:

• ReasonOnLine
  • Morality on the brain: Cerebral scans for right and wrong (1/27/06)

Blogs/Articles:

• BeyondBullets (Cliff Atkinson)
• BrainBlog
• BrainEthics
  • Evo-psychiatry (6/19/06)
• Brainscan
  • FMRI as Philosophical Tool (1/28/06)
• Cognitive Daily
  • Is 17 the "most random" number? (2/5/07)
  • Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence (12/19/06)
• Corante
  • A reading list for aspiring knowledge workers (2/17/06) (a bit off target)
  • Brain Waves blog
• Decision Science News Dan Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Marketing at London Business School
  • The Difference Between Significant and Not Significant is Not Statistically Significant: MINDLESS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING (12/6/06)
  • Buchanan, L., O'Connell, A., (2006). A brief history of decision making. Harvard Business Review, 84(1) (1/26/06)
• Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
  • The evolutionary psychology of Facial beauty (12/3/05)
• EurekaAlert
  • Watching the brain switch off 'self' (4/19/06)
• Forest Policy - Forest Practice
  • How to Avoid Harebrained, Cockamamie Schemes (11/15/06) - Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them (listed)
• Future Pundit
  • Altruistic People Differ In Brain Scans (1/22/07)
  • Brain Limits Necessitate Colored Uniforms In Sports (6/25/06)
  • Misunderstandings common in email (5/22/06)
  • Neurons Identified That Assign Relative Ratings To Goods (4/23/06)
  • Political Partisans Addicted To Irrational Defense Of Their Tribes (1/25/06)
  • Prospect of Rewards Triggers Memory Formation (5/3/06)
  • Category - biological mind
  • Category - brain economics
  • Category - brain emotions
• Fuzzy Signals
  • Tracking Global Violence: Are things actually getting better? (1/6/06) psychology of risk
• How to save the world
  • What Our Dysfunctional and Evolving 'Information Behaviours' and Information Skills Mean for Our Future (5/4/06)
• if:book - a project of The Institute for the Future of the Book
  • CommentPress 1.0 (7/25/07)
• Kuro5Hin
  • Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War (4/20/06)
• Life With Alacrity
  • Using 5-Star Rating Systems (8/11/06)
  • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes (3/10/04)
    • Wikipedia
• Lifehacker
• MindHacks
• Muck and Mystery
  • Persuasive Pass Time (4/25/06)
  • Two Kinds (4/25/06)
• Myomancy - ADD/ADHA Autism Dyslexia
• neurodudes
• Neuroeconomics
• Neuromarketing: Where brain science and marketing meet
  • Decision Making, Risk and Ambiguity (3/6/06)
• Neurophilosophy
  • Andrew Newberg on religion and the brain Neurophilosophy blog, 8/8/06
• Overcoming Bias: Future of Humanity Institute
  • The Butler Did It, of Course! (1/24/07) - psychology of confessions
• Philoso?hy Talk
  • Evolutionary Psychology: A Defense -- Sort of! (5/25/05)
• Prometheus
  • A new article (4/17/06)  pdf
• Psychology Today
  • Addiction: Pay Attention (5/7/06)
• PsyBlog
• Sharp Brains - the brain fitness authority
• Steve Pavlina
• The Business of Emotions (Dr. Richard Marsden, Athabasca University, Canada)
• The Oil Drum
  • And who is that, riding to the rescue? (10/17/05)
• University of Chicago Magazine
  • Can behavioral economics save us from ourselves? (Feb, 2005, 97(3))

Motivational:

people:

• Reed, John T. (business / real estate gurus)

blogs:

• Human Manual - old - new Subjective Matters
  • Skilled positive thinking (1/27/06)
• Matt's Idea Blog
  • How to read a lot of books in a short time (2/26/06)
• Steve Pavlina
  • Beyond self-delusional positive thinking (1/27/06)
  • Empowering beliefs (8/7/06)
  • Overcoming fear podcast (12/5/05)
  • Recommending reading (7/17/06)

Other Stuff:

• USDA AFM Cooperative Resolution Program
  • suggested reading list
• VitalSmarts

Notes from others on materials for inclusion -

George Lakoff's book (or at least the first chapter) "Moral Politics" or if not that the introduction to "Don't think of an Elephant" (the former is more intellectual).

I would also encourage you to check out Judith Williamson, "Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising."
"30-second politics" by Montague Kern is also a good book on the subject. Also, "Ritual, Politics and Power" by David Kertzer offers an anthropologist's view of the role of, well, rituals in politics and power.