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001 2008015233
003 DLC
005 20100226154638.0
008 080407s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008015233
020 $a9781596912427 (hardcover)
020 $a1596912421 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn225532324
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050 00 $aBF448$b.S45 2008
082 00 $a153.8/3$222
100 1 $aShore, Zachary.
245 10 $aBlunder :$bwhy smart people make bad decisions /$cZachary Shore.
246 30 $aWhy smart people make bad decisions
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2008.
300 $avii, 260 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
520 $aWe all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point. From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire, Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves. In the process, he identifies seven "cognition traps" to avoid. But he also emphasizes how understanding these seven simple cognition traps can help us all make wiser judgments in our daily lives. For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder shines the penetrating spotlight of history on decision making and the patterns of thought that can lead us all astray.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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 -- Cure-allism : 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.
650 0 $aDecision making.
650 0 $aProblem solving.
650 0 $aIntellect.
650 0 $aStupidity.
650 0 $aErrors.
650 0 $aCognitive therapy.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008015233.html