Bias & Heuristics

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Resources

Abraham, J. (2023). Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry: Controversy and bias in drug regulation. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003421405/science-politics-pharmaceutical-industry-john-abraham-0-john-abraham-university-reading

Ackerman, R., Bernstein, D. M., & Kumar, R. (2020). Metacognitive hindsight bias. Memory & Cognition, 48(5), 731–744. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01012-w

Adkins, T., Lewis, R., & Lee, T. (2022). Heuristics contribute to sensorimotor decision-making under risk. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(1), 145-158. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01986-x

Bojke, L., Soares, M., Claxton, K., Colson, A., Fox, A., Jackson, C., ... & Taylor, A. (2021). Reviewing the evidence: heuristics and biases. In Developing a reference protocol for structured expert elicitation in health-care decision-making: a mixed-methods study. NIHR Journals Library.

Chater, N., Zhu, J. Q., Spicer, J., Sundh, J., León-Villagrá, P., & Sanborn, A. (2020). Probabilistic biases meet the Bayesian brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(5), 506-512. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0963721420954801

Fadus, M. C., Ginsburg, K. R., Sobowale, K., Halliday-Boykins, C. A., Bryant, B. E., Gray, K. M., & Squeglia, L. M. (2020). Unconscious Bias and the Diagnosis of Disruptive Behavior Disorders and ADHD in African American and Hispanic Youth. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry, 44(1), 95–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-019-01127-6

Fathollahi-Fard, A. M., Wong, K. Y., & Aljuaid, M. (2023). An efficient adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm based on heuristics and reformulations for the generalized quadratic assignment problem. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126, 106802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106802

Gichoya, J. W., Thomas, K., Celi, L. A., Safdar, N., Banerjee, I., Banja, J. D., ... & Purkayastha, S. (2023). AI pitfalls and what not to do: mitigating bias in AI. The British Journal of Radiology, 96(1150), 20230023. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20230023

Gopal, D. P., Chetty, U., O'Donnell, P., Gajria, C., & Blackadder-Weinstein, J. (2021). Implicit bias in healthcare: clinical practice, research and decision making. Future Healthcare Journal, 8(1), 40–48. https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2020-0233

Halpern, S. D., Truog, R. D., & Miller, F. G. (2020). Cognitive bias and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA, 324(4), 337-338.https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.11623

Hjeij, M., & Vilks, A. (2023). A brief history of heuristics: how did research on heuristics evolve?. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01542-z

Ishfaq, M., Nazir, M. S., Qamar, M., & Usman, M. (2020). Cognitive bias and the extraversion personality shaping the behavior of investors. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 556506. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.556506

Juan, A. A., Keenan, P., Martí, R., McGarraghy, S., Panadero, J., Carroll, P., & Oliva, D. (2023). A review of the role of heuristics in stochastic optimisation: From metaheuristics to learnheuristics. Annals of Operations Research, 320(2), 831-861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04142-9

Kappes, A., Harvey, A. H., Lohrenz, T., Montague, P. R., & Sharot, T. (2020). Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’ opinion strength. Nature Neuroscience, 23(1), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0549-2

Kuehl, L. K., Deuter, C. E., Nowacki, J., Ueberrueck, L., Wingenfeld, K., & Otte, C. (2021). Attentional bias in individuals with depression and adverse childhood experiences: influence of the noradrenergic system?. Psychopharmacology, 238(12), 3519-3531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-05969-7

Mittermaier, M., Raza, M. M., & Kvedar, J. C. (2023). Bias in AI-based models for medical applications: challenges and mitigation strategies. NPJ Digital Medicine, 6(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00858-z

Nguyen, H., Guo, C., & Homberg, J. R. (2020). Cognitive bias under adverse and rewarding conditions: A systematic review of rodent studies. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00014

Noworyta, K., Cieslik, A., & Rygula, R. (2021). Neuromolecular underpinnings of negative cognitive bias in depression. Cells, 10(11), Article 3157. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10113157

Peters, U. (2020) What Is the function of confirmation bias? Erkenntnis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00252-1

Rollwage, M., & Fleming, S. M. (2021). Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 376(1822), Article 20200131. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0131

Saarinen, A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Harjunen, V., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Ravaja, N. (2021). Neural basis of in-group bias and prejudices: A systematic meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1214-1227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.027

Schirrmeister, E., Göhring, A. L., & Warnke, P. (2020). Psychological biases and heuristics in the context of foresight and scenario processes. Futures & Foresight Science, 2(2), Article e31. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.31

Skagerlund, K., Forsblad, M., Slovic, P., & Västfjäll, D. (2020). The Affect Heuristic and Risk Perception - Stability Across Elicitation Methods and Individual Cognitive Abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 970. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00970

Timmons, A. C., Duong, J. B., Simo Fiallo, N., Lee, T., Vo, H. P. Q., Ahle, M. W., ... & Chaspari, T. (2023). A call to action on assessing and mitigating bias in artificial intelligence applications for mental health. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(5), 1062-1096. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221134490

van Brussel, S., Timmermans, M., Verkoeijen, P., & Paas, F. (2020). ‘Consider the opposite’–Effects of elaborative feedback and correct answer feedback on reducing confirmation bias–a pre-registered study. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 60, Article 101844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101844

Yang, S., Zhang, M., Xu, J., Wang, L., Li, Z., Zou, F., Wu, X., & Wang, Y. (2020). The electrophysiology correlation of the cognitive bias in anxiety under uncertainty. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 11354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68427-y

Zhao, Y., & Xie, B. (2020). Cognitive bias, entrepreneurial emotion, and entrepreneurship intention. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 625. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00625

Other Resources

Kyi, T. L. (2020). This is your brain on stereotypes: How science is tackling unconscious bias. Kids Can Press Ltd.

Date of last update: 14-Dec-2022 CB

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