"An examination of a common, but underappreciated cognitive bias that permeates or social and political worlds, written by a leading researcher in the field of rationality"--
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Höhe: 232 mm
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978-0-262-04575-9 (9780262045759)
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Keith E. Stanovich is Professor Emeritus of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of What Intelligence Tests Miss, for which he received the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education, and coauthor of The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking (MIT Press). In 2012, Stanovich received the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Many Faces of Myside Bias
2 Is Myside Processing Irrational?
3 Myside Thinking: The Outlier Bias
4 Where Do Our Convictions Come From? Implications for Understanding Myside Bias
5 The Myside Blindness of Cognitive Elites
6 What Should We Do about Myside Bias?
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