Chapter 6

Empathy and Trust: This site gives a businessperson’s perspective on empathic listening. An interesting look at applied empathic listening.

Improving Your Listening: This site briefly discusses bad listening habits that students develop and provides tips for improving listening at school.

Listening Evaluation: Take this online listening self-evaluation and rate your listening skills.

Mission—Critical (Post Hoc Fallacy): Post hoc reasoning is discussed in depth on this site. If you have trouble understanding the concept of correlation mistaken for causation you may find this site helpful.

Nizkor Fallacies: An excellent site for fallacy identification and description. The list of fallacies is comprehensive and the explanations are easy to understand.

The Skeptic’s Dictionary—Confirmation Bias: This site provides an in-depth definition and discussion of confirmation bias. Related links are given for information on selective thinking, subjective validation and more.

University of Minnesota Duluth Student Handbook—Listening Skills: A site designed to help students improve their listening skills in the classroom.