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Author Cerulo, Karen A.

Title Never saw it coming [electronic resource] : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst / Karen A. Cerulo.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 333 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index.
Contents What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Catastrophical, The.
Cognition and culture.
Social psychology.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0226100324 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226100332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226100326
9780226100333

 
    
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