Thinking 101 : how to reason better to live better /
Ahn, Woo-Kyoung,
Thinking 101 : how to reason better to live better / Thinking one-o-one Woo-Kyoung Ahn. - First edition. - London, UK Macmillan, 2022. - viii, 276 pages ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 example: what we miss when we rely on anecdotes 5. Negativity bias: how our fear or loss can lead us astray 6. Biased interpretation: why we fail to see things as they are 7. The 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 Acknowledgements Notes Index
"Yale Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn explains why our judgment is so often wrong-and offers actionable strategies to help us respond to real-life challenges as individuals and as societies at large"
9781529065893
2022002313
Judgment.
Cognition.
Thought and thinking.
BF447 / .A46 2022
SHS 153.4 Ah28t 2022
Thinking 101 : how to reason better to live better / Thinking one-o-one Woo-Kyoung Ahn. - First edition. - London, UK Macmillan, 2022. - viii, 276 pages ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 example: what we miss when we rely on anecdotes 5. Negativity bias: how our fear or loss can lead us astray 6. Biased interpretation: why we fail to see things as they are 7. The 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 Acknowledgements Notes Index
"Yale Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn explains why our judgment is so often wrong-and offers actionable strategies to help us respond to real-life challenges as individuals and as societies at large"
9781529065893
2022002313
Judgment.
Cognition.
Thought and thinking.
BF447 / .A46 2022
SHS 153.4 Ah28t 2022