Steven A. Sloman

The Cost of Conviction

How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049825
• ISBN-10: 0262049821
• Artikelnr.: 72060176

Autorenporträt

Steven Sloman

Inhaltsangabe

1 What This Book Is About 1
2 Why Sacred Values Are Essential 13
3 Why Sacred Values are Dangerous 33
4 Making Decisions by Consequences 51
5 The Art of Belief: How People Think About What Is 73
6 Beliefs About How Things Work 91
7 Values (the Nonsacred Kind) 113
8 Simplifying Choice 133
9 How Should I Choose? Consequentialism versus Sacred Values 153
10 What About Decisions That Don't Involve Thinking? 169
11 How to Do the Right Thing 185
12 Bottling Up Outrage 205
Acknowledgments 215
Notes 217
Index 239