Suzanne Weusten (1953) is psycholoog en directeur van De Argumentenfabriek Denkacademie. Ze was 25 jaar werkzaam als journalist, onder andere als hoofdredacteur van Psychologie Magazine en lid van de hoofdredactie van de Volkskrant.
Meer over Suzanne WeustenHow We Fool Ourselves
The ABC of faulty thinking
Gebonden Engels 2015 1e druk 9789082329322Samenvatting
Want to understand why you fall prey to faulty thinking? Keen to protect yourself and others against the biases of the brain? This book offers insights and practical tips for recognizing and avoiding everyday errors.
Suzanne Weusten looks at situations familiar to us all and describes the most common examples of faulty thinking, from the understandable tendency to rely blindly on a friend's judgment to the dangerous mechanism of group thinking and the deeply human trait of regarding ourselves as brilliant.
Suzanne Weusten is a psychologist and director of The Thinking Academy at The Argumentation Factory in Amsterdam. She trains professionals to think clearly.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction
-Affect heuristics
-Begging the question
-Confirmation bias
-Cognitive dissonance
-Endowment effect
-Fundamental attribution error
-Group thinking
-Hindsight bias
-Information bias
-Just world bias
-Kettle logic
-Lake Wobegon effect
-Magical thinking
-Negativity bias
-Omission bias
-Post hoc ergo propter hoc
-Tu quoque
-Representativeness bias
-Sunk cost fallacy
-Texas sharpshooter fallacy
-Ugly sisters
-Volvo fallacy
-Well-travelled road effect
-X, the unknown quantity
-‘Yours is a Very Bad Hotel’
-Zero risk bias
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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