Thinking 101 how to reason better to live better
"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"--
| Main Author: | Ahn, Woo-Kyoung (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Flatiron Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The allure of fluency: why things look so easy
- Confirmation bias: how we can go wrong when trying to be right
- The challenge of casual attribution: why we shouldn't be so sure when we give credit to assign blame
- The perils of examples: what we miss when we rely on anecdotes
- Negativity bias: how our fear of loss can lead us astray
- Biased interpretation: why we fail to see things as they are
- The dangers of perspective-taking: why others don't always get what's obvious to us
- The trouble with delayed gratification: how our present self misunderstand our future self.