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Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions. How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities? When are people's judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases? This book compiles psychologists' best attempts to answer these important questions.

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"I know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way."These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality.“Blindspot” is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential.In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot.The book’s “good people” are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and “outsmart the machine” in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds.Brilliant, authoritative, and utterly accessible, Blindspot is a book that will challenge and change readers for years to come.

Judgment pervades human experience. Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial? Will the Fed change interest rates? Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions. How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities? When are people's judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases? This book compiles psychologists' best attempts to answer these important questions.

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Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence and hindsight bias. This is followed by an explanation of the experimental context in which these illusions can be investigated and a theoretical discussion drawing conclusions about the wider implications of these fallacy and bias effects. Written with researchers and instructors in mind, this tightly edited, reader-friendly text provides both an overview of research in the area and many lively pedagogic features such as chapter summaries, further reading lists and suggestions for classroom demonstrations.

Do you think you're a rational investor?Most people do. But the truth is that we are all Emotional Investors. Our emotions often cause us to make hasty and unwise decisions that lead to poor performance.In this insightful book, speaker and behavioral economist Jay Mooreland reveals the hidden emotional biases that affect our actions. He explains the oft-neglected role of the emotions in our investing, and blazes the path to a sustainable investment strategy that embraces (instead of ignores) our emotions.If you care about investing wisely and profitably, The Emotional Investor is a must-read.

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"The Biology of Belief" examines how our less than perfectly adapted brains cope with today's world. Among the things considered are how our brain biology biases our perceptions, organizes ignorance into belief systems, predisposes us to believe in supernatural spirits, and permits others to manipulate our beliefs. The human brain evolved over millions of years to cope with survival and reproduction in the rudimentary world of our primitive ancestors. Since our brain biology formed to cope with this ancient world, it should be no surprise that it has a few problems in dealing with the complexities of modern life.     The process by which we come to believe something new involves a labyrinth of thought-influencing biological and other factors. In attempting to understand this labyrinth and its effect on how we acquire beliefs, this work addresses several considerations. The profound effect brain evolution has had on our way of perceiving the world is one example. Other considerations include neurotransmitters, inborn biological predispositions, and the interdependence of belief and perception. Together with other factors, they collectively comprise the biology of belief. How our beliefs come to define our realities is revealed through an exploration of the processes by which beliefs are created, changed, transmitted, and manipulated. The text challenges readers to consider whether biological and belief mechanisms resistant to change will permit long-held cultural beliefs to adapt rapidly enough to address the new realities of our changing world.

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Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence and hindsight bias. This is followed by an explanation of the experimental context in which these illusions can be investigated and a theoretical discussion drawing conclusions about the wider implications of these fallacy and bias effects. Written with researchers and instructors in mind, this tightly edited, reader-friendly text provides both an overview of research in the area and many lively pedagogic features such as chapter summaries, further reading lists and suggestions for classroom demonstrations.

The thirty five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty. About half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book. Most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies. This book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers, as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them.

This book contains eight real-life accounts from Latinas in leadership positions in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture’s expectations for them, and they describe the complexity of life choices for working Latinas, including their struggles in challenging such social assumptions.

"How do my biases inhibit or enhance my ability to be authentic in my relationships?" Bill's book, "Finding the Origination Point," offers the reader the opportunity to free themselves from the self-protecting, seemingly subtle control and manipulation of personal biases, biases we all have. The author, Bill de la Cruz walks us through the step-by-step process that he and his many clients have used to systematically follow their biases back to their point of origination to find healing, growth, understanding, and choice. "Finding the Origination Point" is about deconstructing biases so that they do not constrict your interactions with people who fit your biased experiences, an unconscious process that controls our interactions. The intention of "Finding the Origination Point" is to give you processes and protocols that will serve you as you travel through a lifetime of growth without judging, blaming or shaming yourself for being normal. It is possible to normalize a bias conversation and transform our interactions into purposeful conversations as we bring our unconscious biases into our conscious awareness. "I've been able to get a closer look at experiences in life that have forged opportunities to look at my own biases and they impede growth. Your work gives space, time, and setting to power on without the excess junk of shame and blame. Thank you, brother." Sylvia Bookhardt.

More Intelligent ≠ More RationalThe more intelligent a person is, the more rational she is. That sounds like good common sense. But is that really so? Unfortunately, “smarter” is not always equivalent to “more reasonable”. Research suggests that intelligence and rationality are weakly correlated. Or, to put it simply, being more intelligent doesn’t necessarily mean you’re more rational.The Rational Man?Homo sapiens, the biological name for humans, literally means discerning, wise or rational human being. But how rational are human beings, really?The Biased BrainResearch in psychology and economics has shown that human beings are systematically irrational. Not only do they misjudge situations, but they do it in fairly predictable patterns.Powerful BiasesThis compilation of academic research by eminent psychologists and economists presents 50 most powerful cognitive biases that impair our judgment. These biases occur frequently and affect all - from the baker to the banker and the pariah to the priest. Bias-in-ActionAlongside the biases you will find an easy-to-use tool or ‘Bias-in-Action’ to help you understand how the biases operate and show you how to counter them.Read on...

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