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How Your Mind Works and Leads You to Drama - Cy Wakeman

Cy Wakeman is a dynamic international keynote speaker, drama researcher, New York Times best-selling author and trainer who has spent more than 20 years cultivating a revolutionary approach to leadership. Grounded in reality, Wakeman’s philosophy teaches people how to turn excuses into results and transform unhappy employees into accountable, successful members of the workforce. Through her prolific work with companies such as Bayer, New York Presbyterian, National Institutes of Health,…

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B6 2026 Framing effects

This video introduces you to framing effects. Framing effects are when people give different answers to the same problem depending on how it is phrased (or framed). In rational choice theory, two frames are logically equivalent, should have the same response.

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B5 2026 Affective heuristic

This video introduces you to the affective heuristic. The affective heuristic is a mental shortcut to make decisions or judgments based on current emotions. Like all heuristics, they are short cuts that use little time and mental resources, but can lead to systematic errors.

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B4 2026 Representativeness heuristic

This video introduces you to the representativeness heuristic, or the representative heuristic. The representativeness heuristic is a mental shortcut where you judge the likelihood of an event based on how well it matches your mental representation. If it matches your mental representation, you judge it as likely. If it does not match your mental representation, you judge it as unlikely.Like all heuristics, they are short cuts that use little time and mental resources, but can lead to…

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B3 2026 Egocentric bias

The egocentric bias is the tendency to overestimate your contribution to a group effort. While there is a motivational component to this, there is a cognitive component due to the availability heuristic. Our contributions to a group effort are psychologically available. We can easily think of examples of what we contributed because we did it, thus overestimating the contribution. We have a difficult time thinking of examples of what others contributed because we were doing other things, thus…

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B2 2026 Availability heuristic

This video introduces you to the availability heuristic. The availability heuristic is a shortcut in decision making where you judge the likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to think of specific examples. If you can think of specific examples, you judge it as likely. If you cannot think of specific examples, you judge it as unlikely. Like all heuristics, they are short cuts that use little time and mental resources, but can lead to systematic errors.

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Psy 201 Chapter 8B1 2026 Introductions to heuristics

This video introduces you to heuristics--mental shortcuts when making decisions. These shortcuts require little mental effort and time making them efficient, but can lead to systematic errors.

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Psy 201 Chapter 8A4 2026 Belief bias

This video introduces you to the belief-bias. The belief-bias is the tendency to use different standards when evaluating evidence based on your beliefs. When you have evidence that supports and doesn't support your belief, you use different standards when evaluating the evidence. Evidence that is consistent with my belief is well done, the evidence that is inconsistent with my belief is poorly done.

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Psy 201 Chapter 8A3 2026 Hindsight bias

This video introduces you to the hindsight bias. The hindsight bias is the tendency to overestimate the outcome after (not before) you know the outcome.