Blunder
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
272 pages
978-1-60819-254-0 (ISBN)
Description
For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-60819-254-0 (9781608192540)
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Book
10/2009
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€33.80
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Person
Zachary Shore is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and a senior fellow at Berkeley's Institute of European Studies. The author of What Hitler Knew and Breeding Bin Ladens, he lives in Berkeley, California.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction Keeping Current
- Chapter 1 Exposure Anxiety: The Fear of Being Seen as Weak
- Chapter 2 Causefusion: Confusing the Causes of Complex Events
- Chapter 3 Flatview: Seeing the World in One Dimension
- Chapter 4 Cure-allism: Believing That One Size Really Fits All
- Chapter 5 Infomania: The Obsessive Relationship to Information
- Chapter 6 Mirror Imaging: Thinking the Other Side Thinks Like Us
- Chapter 7 Static Cling: Refusal to Accept a Changing World
- Chapter 8 Cognition-Trapped in Iraq
- Chapter 9 Working Toward Wisdom
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
