how to reason better to live better Ahn, Woo-Kyoung creator author text bibliography nyu London, UK Macmillan 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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viii, 276 pages ; 20 cm "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" 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 Woo-Kyoung Ahn. Includes bibliographical references and index. Judgment Cognition Thought and thinking BF447 .A46 2022 SHS 153.4 Ah28t 2022 9781529065893 2022002313 DLC 220511 20260803094257.0 22542706 eng