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Author Dawes, Robyn M., 1936-

Title Everyday irrationality : how pseudo-scientists, lunatics, and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally / Robyn M. Dawes.

Imprint Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  153.43 D321e    ---  Available
Description xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Irrationality is abundant -- Irrationality has consequences -- Irrationality : emotional, cognitive, both, or neither? -- Irrationality as a "reasonable" response to an incomplete specification -- Probabilistic rationality and irrationality -- Three specific irrationalities of probabilistic judgment -- Good stories -- Connecting ourselves with others, without recourse to a good story -- Sexual abuse hysteria -- Figure versus ground (entry value versus default value) -- Rescuing human rationality.
Subject Reasoning.
Comparison (Psychology)
ISBN 081336552X

 
    
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