ECH 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Sunk Costs, Cognitive Dissonance
4 Dec 2014
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What is honour: external honour as precedence. Internal honour as virtue: honour is collective as well as individual. Honour as a cause of war: positive: causes competition for status and recognition, negative: shame avoidance, association of honour with traditional masculine virtues strength, courage. Importance of responding to challenges or insults: necessity of standing firm on points of honour. Honour, war and manhood: war as way of proving or protecting manhood. Militarism: form of social organisation in which preparations for war take precedence and military values are preferred, result is a tendency to resort to military solutions to political problems. The illusion of reality: we cannot perceive reality; we can only ever see our interpretation of it. Cognitive biases and heuristics: cognitive biases, mistakes in reasoning, predictable errors in making of judgements, often product of a desire to avoid cognition dissonance, heuristics, mental shortcuts to solve problems quickly. Examples of heuristics: availability/irretrievability heuristic, affect heuristic, analogy, anchoring, priming, endowment effect.
