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Dr. Ben discusses bias at the table and how it effects table behavior (Episode #162). #dnd #pathfinder #ttrpg #wfrp Website https://rpgphd.com/ Discord https://discord.gg/STFdne3PbU RPG PHD swag!!! https://rpg-phd.myspreadshop.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089593636905 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rpg_phd/ Bluesky @rpg-phd.bsky.social Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87730462&view_as=patron Special thanks to Evelina for the thumbnail template, much appreciated!! 😊 How do cognitive biases shape player decisions in tabletop RPGs? In this video, I explore how ideas from Daniel Kahneman’s work can help GMs understand player behavior, clue interpretation, resource hoarding, risk perception, and encounter design. If you want practical GM advice for running clearer, smarter, and more engaging TTRPG sessions, this video will give you useful tools you can apply right away. cognitive biases, cognitive bias, cognitive biases rpg, tabletop rpg, ttrpg, rpg gm advice, gamemaster tips, dungeon master tips, gm advice, rpg advice, daniel kahneman, heuristics and biases, loss aversion, anchoring bias, availability heuristic, framing effect, confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy, negativity bias, psychology of play, how to be a better gm, how to gm, tabletop roleplaying games, game master advice, dungeon master advice, ttrpg advice, rpg encounter design, rpg session design, player psychology rpg, gm psychology, rpg phd, dr ben, tabletop storytelling, ttrpg analysis, rpg design theory, tabletop game theory --------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 01:28 Bias and Uncertainty 03:47 Loss Aversion 06:11 Anchoring 08: 46 Availability Heuristic 11:17 Framing Effects 13:54 More Biases Wirth Watching 15:59 GM Guide 23:45 Homework 26:22 Thoughts? -------------------------------------------- American Psychological Association. “Anchoring Bias.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. “Availability Heuristic.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. “Confirmation Bias.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. “Framing.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. “Framing Effect.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association. “Heuristic.” APA Dictionary of Psychology, American Psychological Association. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Kahneman, Daniel. “Maps of Bounded Rationality.” Prize Lecture, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 8 Dec. 2002. Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky. “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk.” Econometrica, vol. 47, no. 2, 1979, pp. 263–291. Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” Science, vol. 185, no. 4157, 1974, pp. 1124–1131. Music and Sounds: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/Erdns8jA3D/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/MRyCi54t7M/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/AQBpWzOsID/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/yCvSWOBYUe/ Music: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/c0X3Z8H8uZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/yCvSWOBYUe/ Music: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/bWHPOsoaql/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/uDAHxg3lIS/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/e3mQvva1kZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/e3mQvva1kZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/e3mQvva1kZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/2dLRmfzdA5/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/jrNZjxJQqZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/c0X3Z8H8uZ/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/sound-effects/tracks/8c51eca6-dbb5-4925-b4ec-7ee51630322e