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UNINA9910823014503321 |
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Wagner David |
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No longer homeless : how the ex-homeless get and stay off the streets / / David Wagner, Gemma Atticks |
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Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2020 |
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Homeless persons - United States |
Homeless persons - Employment - United States |
United States Social policy |
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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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910972649803321 |
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Autore |
Gigerenzer Gerd |
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Adaptive thinking : rationality in the real world / / Gerd Gigerenzer |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2000 |
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1-280-83776-4 |
9786610837762 |
0-19-803117-3 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) : illustrations |
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Logic |
Reasoning |
Thought and thinking |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and indexes. |
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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 |
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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 |
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takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world. |
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