Thinking 101 : how to reason better to live better / Woo-Kyoung Ahn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Flatiron Books, [2022]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 276 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529065893
Other title:
  • Thinking one-o-one
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • SHS 153.4 Ah28t 2022 23/eng/20220512
LOC classification:
  • BF447 .A46 2022
Contents:
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
Summary: "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" Provided by publisher.
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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" Provided by publisher.

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