There are opportunities for students to learn and contribute as research assistants in my lab. My approach is to work closely with students, but with the goal of incrementally increasing independence. Students are encouraged to take charge of projects in every way they can, and to develop their own interests and projects, so that when their training is completed, they are capable of developing an idea from a germ to a publication entirely on their own. An experientially derived base-rate error in humans. Learning to commit or avoid the base-rate error.
Direct experience is ecologically valid.
The satisficing role of emotions in decision-making. What does and does not alleviate base-rate neglect under direct experience. Demons versus heuristics in artificial intelligence, behavioral ecology and economics. Oxford University Press. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.