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Author Shore, Zachary.

Title Blunder : why smart people make bad decisions / Zachary Shore.

Imprint New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  153.83 Sh78b 2009    ---  Available
Description vii, 260 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
Contents Introduction: Keeping current -- Exposure anxiety : the fear of being seen as weak -- Causefusion : confusing the causes of complex events -- Flatview : seeing the world in one dimension -- Cureallism : believing that one size really fits all -- Infomania : the obsessive relationship to information -- Mirror imaging : thinking the other side thinks like us -- Static cling : refusal to accept a changing world -- Cognition trapped in Iraq -- Working toward wisdom.
Subject Decision making.
Problem solving.
Intellect.
Stupidity.
Errors.
Cognitive therapy.
ISBN 9781596916432 : $15.00
1596916435

 
    
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