Everyday Irrationality - Robyn Dawes

Everyday Irrationality

How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally

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Buch | Hardcover
244 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31559-7 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Robyn Dawes demonstrates how irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons, while instead falling into associational and story-based thinking. He also demonstrates that a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on "everyday" irrationality.
Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. Witness two examples: the belief that child sexual abuse can be diagnosed by observing symptoms typically resulting from such abuse, rather than s

Robyn Dawes is the author of over 150 articles and four books, the latest being House of Cards, and Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, which won the William James Award from the American Psychological Association. He has degrees from Harvard, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is now teaching at the Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

1 Irrationality Is Abundant, 2 Irrationality Has Consequences, 3 Irrationality: Emotional, Cognitive, Both, or Neither?, 4 Irrationality as a "Reasonable" Response to an Incomplete Specification, 5 Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality, 6 Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment, 7 Good Stories, 8 Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story, 9 Sexual Abuse Hysteria, 10 Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value), 11 Rescuing Human Rationality

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-31559-9 / 0367315599
ISBN-13 978-0-367-31559-7 / 9780367315597
Zustand Neuware
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