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Everyday Irrationality - How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,677

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Everyday Irrationality - How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally...

Everyday Irrationality - How Pseudo- Scientists, Lunatics, And The Rest Of Us Systematically Fail To Think Rationally (Paperback)

Robyn Dawes

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Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. This book demonstrates how such irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons, while instead falling into associational and story-based thinking. Strong emotion-or even insanity-is one reason for making automatic associations without comparison, but as the author demonstrates, a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on the same kind of "everyday" irrationality.

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Imprint:	WestviewPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2002
First published:	December 2002
Authors:	Robyn Dawes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	243
ISBN-13:	978-0-8133-4026-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Intelligence Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8133-4026-8
Barcode:	9780813340265