How We Know What Isn't So / The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

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Gilovich Thomas

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TextPublication details: The Free Press, 1991Description: 216ISBN:

9780029117064

Summary: This remarkable book presents fascinating examples of disastrous reasoning in everyday life and traces them to errors in inference identified by cognitive and social psychologists. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Cognitive Determinants of Questionable Beliefs, Motivational and Social Determinants of Questionable Beliefs, Examples of Questionable and Erroneous Beliefs, Where Do We Go Here?, Notes, Index.

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This remarkable book presents fascinating examples of disastrous reasoning in everyday life and traces them to errors in inference identified by cognitive and social psychologists. Acknowledgements, Introduction, Cognitive Determinants of Questionable Beliefs, Motivational and Social Determinants of Questionable Beliefs, Examples of Questionable and Erroneous Beliefs, Where Do We Go Here?, Notes, Index.

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How We Know What Isn't So / The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life