Illusions (Classic Reprint): A Psychological Study - Couverture souple

James Sully

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330466705 ISBN 13 : 9781330466704

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Illusions are more common than you think—and they shape how we see, think, and believe. This classic study explains why our ordinary judgments can be misleading, even when we feel sure of ourselves.

The book examines how illusion arises in everyday life, not just in the lab. It covers how perception, memory, introspection, and belief can tilt toward error. You’ll see why common sense sometimes clashes with psychological evidence, and how mood, suggestion, and prior experience influence our judgments.

Within its thoughtful framework, you’ll explore topics such as:

• How environments and expectations distort perception and distance judgments


• How memory can mislocalize events and bend the past


• How insight into others’ feelings can mislead us, and what counts as genuine intuition


• The difference between illusion, belief, and ordinary confidence in our own mind

Ideal for curious readers of psychology and philosophy, this edition helps you understand the roots of error in everyday thought and offers a disciplined way to examine your own beliefs.

Ideal for readers of psychology, philosophy, and self‑awareness.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The present volume takes a wide surrey of the field of error, embracing in its view not only the illuB iooa of sense dealt with in treatises on physiological optics, etc., but also other errors familiarly known as illusions, and resembling the former in their structure and mode of origin. I have throughout endeavoured to keep to a strictly scientific treatment, that is to say, the description and classification of acknowledged errors, and the explanation of these by a reference to their psychical and physical conditions. At the same time, I was not able, at the close of my exposition, to avoid pointing out how the psychology leads on to the philosophy of the subject. Some of the chapters were first roughly sketched out in articles published in magazines and reviews; but these have been not only greatly enlarged, but, to a considerable extent, rewritten. J.S. ffampstead, A pril, 1881.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330466705
• ISBN 13: 9781330466704
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 424
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