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‘Indispensable’ Daniel Kahneman How do you get people to agree
to donate their organs? What’s the trick to reading a wine list?
What’s the perfect number of potential matches a dating site
should offer? Every time we make a choice, our minds go
through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re
influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is presented
that often make the difference between a good decision and a bad
one. To overcome the common faults in our decision-making and
enable better choices in any situation involves conscious and
intentional decision design. Transcending the familiar concepts of
nudges and defaults, The Elements of Choice offers a comprehensive,
systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the
environments in which we make decisions. The designers of decisions
need to consider all the elements involved in presenting a choice:
how many options to offer, how to present those options, how to
account for our natural cognitive shortcuts, and much more. These
levers are unappreciated, yet they impact our reasoning every day.
This book doesn’t simply analyse the mental fallacies that trip
us up. It goes further to show us what good decision-making looks
like – that it can be both moral and effective.
The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap
research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about
the language development of youth from working and lower
socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing
literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is
portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have
been portrayed as common sense facts. This text additionally
analyzes how language gap research has impacted educational
policies, and will be the first book-length overview addressing
this area of rapidly growing interest.
The Language Gap provides an accessible review of the language gap
research, illuminating what we know and what we do not know about
the language development of youth from working and lower
socioeconomic classes. Written to offer a balanced look at existing
literature, this text analyzes how language gap research is
portrayed in the media and how debatable research findings have
been portrayed as common sense facts. This text additionally
analyzes how language gap research has impacted educational
policies, and will be the first book-length overview addressing
this area of rapidly growing interest.
This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that
individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have
inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class
groups. The idea of this so-called "language gap" stems in large
part from Hart and Risley's (1995) publication Meaningful
Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children.
Hart and Risley proposed that by age 3, children from more
economically affluent households were exposed to approximately 30
million more words than children from low-income backgrounds. They
also claimed that this gap in exposure to words negatively impacts
cognitive development and eventual academic achievement. The
contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a
"language-gap" as well as the recent swell of academic research and
public programs that it has produced. The chapters interrogate the
linguistic, academic, cultural, and social implications of the
"language-gap" by providing critical accounts grounded in the
scholarly disciplines of sociolinguistics, anthropology, and
education. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the International Multilingual Research Journal.
This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that
individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have
inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class
groups. The idea of this so-called "language gap" stems in large
part from Hart and Risley's (1995) publication Meaningful
Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children.
Hart and Risley proposed that by age 3, children from more
economically affluent households were exposed to approximately 30
million more words than children from low-income backgrounds. They
also claimed that this gap in exposure to words negatively impacts
cognitive development and eventual academic achievement. The
contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a
"language-gap" as well as the recent swell of academic research and
public programs that it has produced. The chapters interrogate the
linguistic, academic, cultural, and social implications of the
"language-gap" by providing critical accounts grounded in the
scholarly disciplines of sociolinguistics, anthropology, and
education. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the International Multilingual Research Journal.
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers which strategy a person will use in a given situation. A series of experiments testing the model are presented, and the authors analyze how the model can lead to improved decisions and opportunities for further research.
The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers which strategy a person will use in a given situation. A series of experiments testing the model are presented, and the authors analyze how the model can lead to improved decisions and opportunities for further research.
From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns
and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in
contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social
inequality. Developed as a collaborative effort by members of the
American Anthropological Association's Language and Social Justice
Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly insights
on the relationship between patterns of communication and the
creation of more just societies. Using case studies by leading and
emergent scholars and practitioners written especially for
undergraduate audiences, the book is ideal for introductory courses
on social justice in linguistics and anthropology.
From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns
and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in
contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social
inequality. Developed as a collaborative effort by members of the
American Anthropological Association's Language and Social Justice
Task Force, this innovative volume synthesizes scholarly insights
on the relationship between patterns of communication and the
creation of more just societies. Using case studies by leading and
emergent scholars and practitioners written especially for
undergraduate audiences, the book is ideal for introductory courses
on social justice in linguistics and anthropology.
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