TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dawes Robyn M
TI  - Everyday Irrationality / How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally
SN  - 813340268
PY  - 2001///
PB  - Westview Press
N2  - 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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