The Biased Mind How Evolution Shaped our Psychology Including Anecdotes and Tips for Making Sound Decisions /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Boutang, Jérôme (Συγγραφέας), De Lara, Michel (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Behavioral sciences.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.

Using a wealth of anecdotes, data from academic literature, and original research, this very accessible little book highlights how we all struggle to cope with the maelstrom of choices, influences and experiences that come our way. The authors have slogged through piles of dry research papers to pro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Embark on the mind tour
• Better be paranoid to survive
• We like things the way they are
• Our detective mind grasps clues and narrates
• Images call more to mind than words and numbers
• How to balance pros and cons and other helpful hints
• I frame, you're framed
• Epilogue: does it really pay to weigh up our biases.