Podcast 179 – An Interview with Gary Klein - a podcast by Scott D. Weingart, MD FCCM

Today, I am joined by my friend, Mike Lauria, to interview Gary Klein, PhD. Dr. Klein is a masterful cognitive psychologist. He is known for many groundbreaking works, including: the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings; a Data/Frame model of sensemaking; a Management by Discovery model of planning to handle wicked problems; and a Triple-Path model of insight. He has also developed several research and application methods: The Critical Decision method and Knowledge Audit for doing cognitive task analysis; the PreMortem method of risk assessment; the ShadowBox method for training cognitive skills. He was instrumental in founding the field of Naturalistic Decision Making.

The Books

Sources of Power





This is the one that got Mike and I started as Klein Fanboys

Streetlights and Shadows





The absolute best compilation of Dr. Klein's decision-making concepts that are directly applicable to medicine

Seeing What Others Don't





Next up on my reading list

Recognition Primed Decisionmaking





Wikipedia Link for RPD

Sites and Links



* Dr. Klein's Company

* Shadowbox Training



Articles Mentioned in the Show



* Kahneman D, Klein G. Conditions for intuitive expertise: a failure to disagree. Am Psychol. 2009 Sep;64(6):515-26.

* Can We Trust Best Practices? Six Cognitive Challenges of Evidence-Based Approaches. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making



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* Effect of availability bias and reflective reasoning on diagnostic accuracy among internal medicine residents.

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