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 John H. Bodley, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman


All readings are from the textbooks listed on the Class Textbook WebPage

REM: The Midterm Exam and the Final Exam are open-book / open-notes exams

Before you begin to look at the textbooks,
see the note about the exams on the Class Textbook WebPage

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Week 1
   

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

    • INTRODUCTION, "SETTING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TABLE"
    • Glossary page through the Glossary on pp. 275-284 and familiarize yourelf with the terms

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

    INTRODUCTION

PART I. TWO SYSTEMS

    1. The characters of the story

    2. Attention and effort

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

    • read ahead, if you like

  
       
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Week 2
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • This week, or by the end of Week 3, Sign up for your Panel Presentation (in your canvas folder . . .  note that the Ch. 1 Panel is Wednesday of Week 4)

 

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART I. TWO SYSTEMS

    1. The lazy controller

    2. The associative machine

    3. Cognitive ease
     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

    • read ahead, if you like

  
       
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Week 3
   

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

    • Ch. 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Contemporary Human Problems

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART I. TWO SYSTEMS

  1. Norms, surprises, and causes

  2. A machine for jumping to conclusions

  3. How judgments happen

  4. Answering an easier question

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

    • read ahead, if you like

  
       
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Week 4
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • CHAPTER THREE: MOBILE INGREDIENTS: GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART II. HEURISTICS AND BIASES

    1. The law of small numbers

    2. Anchors

    3. The science of availability

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART I HUMANS AND ECONS

    1. Biases and Blunder

    2. Resisting Temptation
     
 
       
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Week 5
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 2 Scale, Adaptation, and the Environmental Crisis

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART II. HEURISTICS AND BIASES

  1. Availability, emotion, and risk

  2. Tom W's specialty

  3. Linda: less is more

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART I HUMANS AND ECONS

  1. Following the Herd

 

  
       
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Week 6
   

Review for Midterm Exam

Wiki questions for the Midterm Exam are due by the end of Week 5, Saturday, 11 February 2017, 11:55 p.m.

 
   

s2018 Week 7: The Senior Seminar Midterm Exam is scheduled for Week 8 Day 13, Monday, 26 February 2018, 4:00-5:15 p.m., in Cina 214

REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop

  
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For after the Midterm Exam

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • CHAPTER FIVE: RECIPES AND DISHES

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART II. HEURISTICS AND BIASES

    1. Causes trump statistics

    2. Regression to the mean

    3. Taming intuitive predictions

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

    • read ahead, if you like

  
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Week 7
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

After the Exam . . .

  • Ch. 3. Natural Resources and the Culture of Consumption

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART III. OVERCONFIDENCE

    1. The illusion of understanding

    2. The illusion of validity

    3. Intuitions vs. formulas

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART I HUMANS AND ECONS

  1. When Do We Need a Nudge

  
       
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Week 8
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 4. Malnutrition and the Evolution of Food Systems

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART III. OVERCONFIDENCE

    1. Expert intuition: when can we trust it?

    2. The outside view

    3. The engine of capitalism

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART I HUMANS AND ECONS

    1. Choice Architecture

  
       
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Week 9
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 5. Commercial Factory-Food Systems

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART IV. CHOICES

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART II MONEY

  1. Save More Tomorrow

  
       
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Week 10
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 6. Population Problem

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART IV. CHOICES

    1. Bad events

    2. The fourfold pattern

    3. Rare events

    4. Risk policies

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART II MONEY

    1. Naïve Investing

  
       
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Week 11
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 7. Poverty and Conflict

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART IV. CHOICES

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART II MONEY

    1. Credit Markets

    2. Privatizing Social Security: Smorgasbord Style

  
       
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Week 12 —
    Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • (Review)

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART V. TWO SELVES

    1. Two selves

    2. Life as a story

    3. Experienced well-being

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART III HEALTH

    1. Prescription Drugs: Part D for Daunting

    2. How to Increase Organ Donation

    3. Saving the Planet

 
   


Work on Readings for Your Project

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Week 13 —

Term Paper Review
   

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Ch. 8. The Future

 

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART V. TWO SELVES

    1. Thinking about life

    CONCLUSIONS

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART IV FREEDOM

    1. Improving School Choices

    2. Should Patients Be Forced to Buy Lottery Tickets

    3. Privatizing Marriage

  
   
Work on Readings for Your Term Paper
(which is due next week)
 
       
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Week 14 —

   

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Review as needed

 

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

PART V. TWO SELVES

    1. Two selves

    2. Life as a story

    3. Experienced well-being

    4. Thinking about life

    CONCLUSIONS

     

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART V EXTENSIONS AND OBJECTIONS

    1. A Dozen Nudge

    2. Objections

    3. The Real Third Way

  
       
   
Wiki questions for the Final exam are due by Monday, tba 11:55 p.m.

s2018 Group Rearch Report (Group Term Paper)
due by the end of Week 15, Friday, 28 April 2018

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

 
       
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Week 15 —
   

Bodley Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition, John H. Bodley

  • Review as needed

 

Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

    PART V. TWO SELVES

  • Review

    •  

Thaler and Sunstein Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

PART V EXTENSIONS AND OBJECTIONS

    1. Bonus Chapter: Twenty More Nudges
    Postscript: November 2008

  
   
John H. Bodley, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, Sixth Edition
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
 
       
   

Catch up, and Review for Final Exam

s2018 Extra Credit Review Paper
due by the end of Week 13, Saturday, 14 April 2018

AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

 
       
 

finaltime f2018 Week 16 ("Finals Week"): The Senior Seminar Final Exam is scheduled for Monday, 30 April 2018, 4:00-5:55 p.m. in Cina 214. Sign in on Canvas in the Week 15 Panel.


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