Today we talk about how too much confidence is a bad thing. Tiggy tells James about how a flight ended in death and destruction when two pilots make a BET on how to land the plane. That bet costed lives, and what happened to the pilots?

https://www.scribbr.co.uk/bias-in-research/the-overconfidence-bias/

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/career-map/sell-side/capital-markets/overconfidence-bias/#:~:text=Overconfidence%20bias%20is%20a%20tendency,behavioral%20finance%20and%20capital%20markets.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389615000944?via%3Dihub

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2681&context=faculty_scholarship#:~:text=For%20income%2Dgenerating%20crimes%2C%20the,offending%2C%20controlling%20for%20other%20risk.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377781931_Managing_Overconfidence_Bias_in_Decision_Making_A_Review_of_the_Literature

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/black-box-down/id1503540842?i=1000527474261

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/326909

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/world/europe/russia-plane-crash.html

https://www.unilad.com/community/russia-pilots-land-passenger-plane-blind-disaster-bet-792951-20231031

This case covers a domestic violence case and how a whole family can blow up at the hands of one person. Tiggy also educates James on the law of diminished responsibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'Naghten_rules

https://askewslegal.co/insights/criminal-law/the-defence-of-diminished-responsibility/#:~:text=The legal defence of diminished,consideration of mental health factors.

https://www.britannica.com/science/mental-disorder

https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1111/1556-4029.13789

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-22879041

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/familys-heartbreak-beloved-harlow-mum-9531224

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340134/Mark-Golds-Let-finish--Murderer-demanded-police-let-stab-girlfriend-arrested-moments-fatal-knife-attack.html

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/story/2013-06-12/harlow-killer-gets-life/

https://vlex.co.uk/vid/r-v-golds-792604053

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-20115446

https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/r-v-golds.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-18868258

https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2015_0053_judgment_4d36e99af2.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2015-0053

This week we talk about how learned helplessness can cause inactivity. And what happens when that finally breaks. Featuring Eastenders, multiple body parts and a suspicious family member, this episode dives right in.

Definition:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325355#:~:text=In%20psychology%2C%20learned%20helplessness%20is,opportunities%20for%20change%20are%20available.

In academia:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4920136/#:~:text=Learned%20helplessness%2C%20the%20failure%20to,learning%20undermined%20trying%20to%20escape.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/learned-helplessness.html

Learned helplessness in a criminal case:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/tony-mccluskie-sentencing-remarks-30012013.pdf

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/life-in-jail-for-brother-of-eastenders-actress-who-he-murdered-chopped-up-and-dumped-in-canal-8472964.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/30/brother-eastenders-gemma-mccluskie-murder

https://horridhackney.com/f/body-of-murdered-eastenders-actress-found-in-regents-canal-2012

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_McCluskie

https://www.itv.com/watch/evidence-of-evil/10a3266/10a3266a0009

https://www.bustle.com/p/where-is-tony-mccluskie-now-gemma-mccluskies-murder-is-the-subject-of-this-c5-doc-18145092