Everyday Irrationality / How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
Everyday Irrationality / How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
- Westview Press, 2001
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The writer defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Preface, Acknowledgements, Irrationality Is Abundant, Irrationality Has Consequences, Irrationality: Emotional and Cognitive and Both or Neither?, Irrationality as a ''Reasonable'' Response to an Incomplete Specification, Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality, Tree Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgement, Good Stories, Connecting Ourselves with Others and Without Resource to a Good Story, Sexual Abuse Hysteria, Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value), Rescuing Human Rationality.
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The writer defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Preface, Acknowledgements, Irrationality Is Abundant, Irrationality Has Consequences, Irrationality: Emotional and Cognitive and Both or Neither?, Irrationality as a ''Reasonable'' Response to an Incomplete Specification, Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality, Tree Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgement, Good Stories, Connecting Ourselves with Others and Without Resource to a Good Story, Sexual Abuse Hysteria, Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value), Rescuing Human Rationality.
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