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Foreign Students in India: Discrimination and the Question of Academic Self-Efficacy

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Discrimination and the Academic Self-Efficacy Discrimination takes many forms, often subtle and difficult to name. As a foreign student in India, I came across a very particular one that may not be immediately identifiable. In conversations with other foreign students I had befriended in India similar experiences began to surface. They recounted repeated encounters within […]

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Cognitive Bias and Human Decision Making

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Human beings often believe their decisions are guided by careful reasoning. Research in psychology has shown that this assumption is only partly true. Many judgments rely on mental shortcuts that simplify complex choices. These shortcuts make everyday decisions possible, yet they also introduce predictable errors in human thinking. Heuristics and Cognitive Bias in Psychological Research

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