| Description |
xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-301) and index. |
| Contents |
Inside George W. Bush's mind: hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia: separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser: ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing: heads I win, tails I win too! -- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser: thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality. |
| Subject |
Intelligence tests.
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Thought and thinking.
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| ISBN |
9780300123852 hardback alkaline paper |
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030012385X hardback alkaline paper |
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