Good Thinking : Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think

Denise. Cummins
Bok · Engelsk · 2012 · Electronic books.

Annen tittel	Good thinking
Utgitt	Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2012.
Omfang	1 online resource (214 p.)
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Good Thinking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Game Theory; The Basics of Game Theory; Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes; Game Theory and Avoiding Mary's Inappropriate Co-Worker; Game Theory and Deciding Whether or Not to Trust; Experimental Economics: What Do People Actually Do?; Differences in Power and Status Influence How Fairly We Treat Others; Neuroscience Makes It Clearer Why We Behave the Way We Do; The Evolution of Cooperation; THREE: Rational Choice; How the "Big Boys" Think about Decision Making. - EIGHT: Problem SolvingWhen Problems Are Well-Defined; When Problems Are Not So Well-Defined; Finding the Way There; Artificial Intelligence: Machines That Think; How Experts Solve Problems; Insight and Genius; NINE: Analogical Reasoning; Analogy as It Should Be Done; Analogy: How It Is Actually Done; Why Analogy Is the Core of Cognition; References; Index. - How to Be More BayesianWhen We Are Not Bayesian; How the Question Is Framed Determines Whether You Get It Right or Wrong; Your Brain on Decision Making; Decision Making in the Real World: The Economic Meltdown of 2008; FOUR: Moral Decision Making; Church and State Weigh in on Morality; What David Hume Had to Say; What Immanuel Kant Had to Say; What Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Had to Say; What Seems Right to Us: The Psychology of Moral Judgment; Yes, but What Is Morality for?; FIVE: The Game of Logic; A Journey into Logic Land; Just How Logical Are People, Really?. - What to Do When the World (or Your Mind) ChangesSIX: What Causes What?; The Paradox of Causality; How the Experts Decide What Causes What; How Your Brain Decides What Causes What; What Is Necessary? What Is Sufficient?; How What You Believe Influences How You Decide; The Causal Paradox Revisited: What Infants Told Us; SEVEN: Hypothesis Testing; Confirmation Bias: Tell Me I'm Right; A More Realistic Study of Confirmation Bias; When Your Brain Is Biased; Science: How We Got Here; Prove I'm Wrong, or Give Me the Most Bang for the Buck?; Ok, Show Me I'm Wrong; Stopgaps and Backup Systems. - This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.
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Sjanger	Electronic books.
Dewey	153.4
ISBN	9780521145503. - 9780521192040