Under a contract from the government's cutting edge research group, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Raytheon BBN will develop game-based training programs featuring an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis and in measuring game-player engagement.

The gaming system will focus on certain types of bias that frequently hurt effective decision-making:

Confirmation bias -- the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms preconceptions.

Blind spot bias -- being less aware of one's own cognitive biases than those of others.

Fundamental attribution error -- over-emphasizing personality-based or character-based effects on behavior.

Anchoring bias -- relying too heavily on one trait or one piece of information.

Representative bias -- judging the likelihood of a hypothesis by its resemblance to immediately available data.

Projection bias -- assuming others share one's current feelings, values or thinking

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[Link] Raytheon given $10.5 to develop 'serious games' for bias reduction

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