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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 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