Books on meta-learning
nazgulnarsil: overcomingbias.comi've spent hours clicking everything the blog posts link to.  
these are your bibles:
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biasesstudy those throughly and you will be better equipped than the vast majority of humanity.  
Disclaimer: exposing the fallacies in social sciences may not win you over with your professor.