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An edition of Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions (2008)

Blunder

why smart people make bad decisions

1st U.S. ed.

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  • 3 Want to read

We 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.

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Bloomsbury USA
Language
English
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260

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Subjects

Errors, Stupidity, Cognitive therapy, Problem solving, Intellect, Decision making
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Blunder: why smart people make bad decisions
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Keeping current
Exposure anxiety : the fear of being exposed as weak
Causefusion : confusing the causes of complex events
Flatview : seeing the world in one dimension
Cureallism : 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
Epilog : The judgment of history.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
153.8/3
Library of Congress
BF448 .S45 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
260

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2008015233
OCLC/WorldCat
225532324
Library Thing
6120462
Goodreads
4750211

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