Robyn Dawes

Everyday Irrationality (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. This book demonstrates how such irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons, while instead falling into associational and story-based thinking. Strong emotion-or even insanity-is one reason for making automatic associations without comparison, but as the author demonstrates, a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on the same kind of "everyday" irrationality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429969232
• Artikelnr.: 54112640

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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