Kyoung Ahn

Thinking 101

How to Reason Better to Live Better

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn explains why our judgement is so often wrongand offers strategies to help us respond to the challenges we all face as individuals and in society at large.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flatiron Books / Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781250805959
• ISBN-10: 1250805953
• Artikelnr.: 63243049

Autorenporträt

Woo-kyoung Ahn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Allure of Fluency: Why Things Look So Easy
2. Confirmation Bias: How We Can Go Wrong When Trying to Be Right
3. The Challenge of Causal Attribution: Why We Shouldn't Be So Sure When We
Give Credit or Assign Blame
4. The Perils of Examples: What We Miss When We Rely on Anecdotes
5. Negativity Bias: How Our Fear of Loss Can Lead Us Astray
6. Biased Interpretation: Why We Fail to See Things As They Are
7. Dangers of Perspective-Taking: Why Others Don't Always Get What's
Obvious to Us
8. The Trouble with Delayed Gratification: How Our Present-Self
Misunderstands Our Future-Self
Epilogue