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KEY FEATURES: A student-friendly writing style makes the content more approachable for readers to retain. Personal stories from fellows of the Association of Psychological Science (APS) convey to readers that even the most distinguished experts make mistakes that can be avoided through examination. Critical thinking questions give students the opportunity to reflect on preceding essays. Stories from all areas of psychology appeal to learners beyond subfields of psychology.
Social Coordination in the Wild
Social Coordination in the Wild
This is not the story of a catastrophic breakdown of scientific thinking but rather of a minor case of forecasting myopia, which, we think, is diagnostic of a larger point. Our forecasting failure occurred when we were studying the decision to make a prosocial sacrifice in the so-called Volunteer’s Dilemma (VoD). The VoD is a rather challenging situation of interpersonal interdependence where the best outcome for the group is when exactly one person agrees to make a sacrifice. To give a stark example, who will run into the burning house to save the baby when mom and dad are respectively standing on the front ...
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