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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (A Psychological Study on Logic) - Softcover

Gilovich, Thomas

 
9780029117064: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (A Psychological Study on Logic)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0029117062 ISBN 13: 9780029117064
Verlag: Free Press, 1993

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Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.

When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions. In a rapidly changing world, the biases and stereotypes that help us process an overload of complex information inevitably distort what we would like to believe is reality. Awareness of our propensity to make these systematic errors, Gilovich argues, is the first step to more effective analysis and action.

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Thomas Gilovich is a professor of psychology at Cornell University and author of The Wisest One in the Room (with Lee Ross), How We Know What Isn’t So, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, and Social Psychology. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Verlag
Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0029117062
ISBN 13 
9780029117064
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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