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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823014503321

Autore

Wagner David

Titolo

No longer homeless : how the ex-homeless get and stay off the streets / / David Wagner, Gemma Atticks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2020

ISBN

1-5381-1008-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

362.50973

Soggetti

Homeless persons - United States

Homeless persons - Employment - United States

United States Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Giving Voice to the Ex-Homeless -- 2 Profiles of Formerly Homeless People -- 3 The Fight to Secure and Stay in Housing -- 4 The Income to Live and Avoid Homelessness -- 5 Community, Support, and Staying Housed -- 6 The Therapeutic Road to Recovery -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.

Sommario/riassunto

No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972649803321

Autore

Gigerenzer Gerd

Titolo

Adaptive thinking : rationality in the real world / / Gerd Gigerenzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-280-83776-4

9786610837762

0-19-803117-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Evolution and cognition

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Logic

Reasoning

Thought and thinking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I: Where Do New Ideas Come From?; 1. From tools to theories: A heuristic of discovery; 2. Mind as computer: The social origin of a metaphor; 3. Ideas in exile: The struggles of an upright man; II: Ecological Rationality; 4. Ecological intelligence; 5. AIDS counseling for low-risk clients; 6. How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction; III: Bounded Rationality; 7. Probabilistic mental models; 8. Reasoning the fast and frugal way; IV: Social Rationality; 9. Rationality: Why social context matters; 10. Domain-specific reasoning: Social contracts and cheating detection

11. The modularity of social intelligence; V: Cognitive Illusions and Statistical Rituals; 12. How to make cognitive illusions disappear; 13. The Superego, the Ego, and the Id in statistical reasoning; 14. Surrogates for theories; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.    Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection



takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world.