How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life - Couverture rigide

Gilovitch, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0029117054 ISBN 13 : 9780029117057

Editeur : Macmillan USA, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Gilovich Thomas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan USA
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0029117054
• ISBN 13: 9780029117057
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible