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028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, new Delhi. _c: ZBD0061 _d: 13/05/2023
082			_a153.43 DAW
100			_aDawes, Robyn M.
245			_a Everyday irrationality _b: how pseudo-scientists, lunatics, and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally. _c/ Robyn M Dawes.
260			_a, Boulder, Colo. _b: Westview Press _c, 2001.
300			_a xvi, 224 pages _b: illustrations _c ; 23 cm.
365			_b5114
505			_aPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Irrationality Is Abundant 1 (16) Irrationality Has Consequences 17 (14) Irrationality: Emotional, Cognitive, Both, or Neither? 31 (16) Irrationality as a ``Reasonable'' Response to an Incomplete Specification 47 (24) Probabilistic Rationality and Irrationality 71 (22) Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment 93 (18) Good Stories 111 (30) Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story 141 (16) Sexual Abuse Hysteria 157 (24) Figure Versus Ground (Entry Value Versus Default Value) 181 (12) Rescuing Human Rationality
520			_a"Robyn Dawes defines irrationality as adhering to beliefs that are inherently self-contradictory, not just incorrect, self-defeating, or the basis of poor decisions. Such beliefs are unfortunately common. Witness two examples: the belief that child sexual abuse can be diagnosed by observing symptoms typically resulting from such abuse, rather than symptoms that differentiate between abused and non-abused children; and the belief that a physical or personal disaster can be understood by studying it alone in-depth rather than by comparing the situation in which it occurred to similar situations where nothing bad happened. This book first demonstrates how such irrationality results from ignoring obvious comparisons. Such neglect is traced to associational and story-based thinking, while true rational judgment requires comparative thinking. Strong emotion - or even insanity - is one reason for making automatic associations without comparison, but as the author demonstrates, a lot of everyday judgment, unsupported professional claims, and even social policy is based on the same kind of irrationality."
650			_aJudgment
650			_aPractical reason
650			_aPsychology
650			_aThought and thinking
700			_aRobyn M. Dawes
942			_cBOOK
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