How We Know What Isn't So Paperback - 1993

When can we trust what we believethat "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions. In a rapidly changing world, the biases and stereotypes that help us process an overload of complex information inevitably distort what we would like to believe is reality. Awareness of our propensity to make these systematic errors, Gilovich argues, is the first step to more effective analysis and action.

Details

• Title How We Know What Isn't So
• Author Thomas Gilovich
• Binding Paperback
• Edition [ Edition: Repri
• Pages 224
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Free Press, New York
• Date 1993-03-05
• ISBN 9780029117064 / 0029117062
• Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
• Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.56 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 1.42 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Judgment, Critical thinking
• Dewey Decimal Code 153.43