Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think / / Denise D. Cummins [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Cummins Denise D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 153.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Game theory Rational choice theory |
ISBN |
1-139-41098-9
1-107-22308-3 1-139-41926-9 1-139-04792-2 1-139-42130-1 1-139-41721-5 1-139-42335-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Good Thinking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Game Theory; The Basics of Game Theory; Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes; Game Theory and Avoiding Mary's Inappropriate Co-Worker; Game Theory and Deciding Whether or Not to Trust; Experimental Economics: What Do People Actually Do?; Differences in Power and Status Influence How Fairly We Treat Others; Neuroscience Makes It Clearer Why We Behave the Way We Do; The Evolution of Cooperation; THREE: Rational Choice; How the "Big Boys" Think about Decision Making
How to Be More BayesianWhen We Are Not Bayesian; How the Question Is Framed Determines Whether You Get It Right or Wrong; Your Brain on Decision Making; Decision Making in the Real World: The Economic Meltdown of 2008; FOUR: Moral Decision Making; Church and State Weigh in on Morality; What David Hume Had to Say; What Immanuel Kant Had to Say; What Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Had to Say; What Seems Right to Us: The Psychology of Moral Judgment; Yes, but What Is Morality for?; FIVE: The Game of Logic; A Journey into Logic Land; Just How Logical Are People, Really? What to Do When the World (or Your Mind) ChangesSIX: What Causes What?; The Paradox of Causality; How the Experts Decide What Causes What; How Your Brain Decides What Causes What; What Is Necessary? What Is Sufficient?; How What You Believe Influences How You Decide; The Causal Paradox Revisited: What Infants Told Us; SEVEN: Hypothesis Testing; Confirmation Bias: Tell Me I'm Right; A More Realistic Study of Confirmation Bias; When Your Brain Is Biased; Science: How We Got Here; Prove I'm Wrong, or Give Me the Most Bang for the Buck?; Ok, Show Me I'm Wrong; Stopgaps and Backup Systems EIGHT: Problem SolvingWhen Problems Are Well-Defined; When Problems Are Not So Well-Defined; Finding the Way There; Artificial Intelligence: Machines That Think; How Experts Solve Problems; Insight and Genius; NINE: Analogical Reasoning; Analogy as It Should Be Done; Analogy: How It Is Actually Done; Why Analogy Is the Core of Cognition; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462061903321 |
Cummins Denise D. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think / / Denise D. Cummins [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Cummins Denise D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 153.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Game theory Rational choice theory |
ISBN |
1-139-41098-9
1-107-22308-3 1-139-41926-9 1-139-04792-2 1-139-42130-1 1-139-41721-5 1-139-42335-5 |
Classificazione | PSY008000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Good Thinking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Game Theory; The Basics of Game Theory; Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes; Game Theory and Avoiding Mary's Inappropriate Co-Worker; Game Theory and Deciding Whether or Not to Trust; Experimental Economics: What Do People Actually Do?; Differences in Power and Status Influence How Fairly We Treat Others; Neuroscience Makes It Clearer Why We Behave the Way We Do; The Evolution of Cooperation; THREE: Rational Choice; How the "Big Boys" Think about Decision Making
How to Be More BayesianWhen We Are Not Bayesian; How the Question Is Framed Determines Whether You Get It Right or Wrong; Your Brain on Decision Making; Decision Making in the Real World: The Economic Meltdown of 2008; FOUR: Moral Decision Making; Church and State Weigh in on Morality; What David Hume Had to Say; What Immanuel Kant Had to Say; What Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Had to Say; What Seems Right to Us: The Psychology of Moral Judgment; Yes, but What Is Morality for?; FIVE: The Game of Logic; A Journey into Logic Land; Just How Logical Are People, Really? What to Do When the World (or Your Mind) ChangesSIX: What Causes What?; The Paradox of Causality; How the Experts Decide What Causes What; How Your Brain Decides What Causes What; What Is Necessary? What Is Sufficient?; How What You Believe Influences How You Decide; The Causal Paradox Revisited: What Infants Told Us; SEVEN: Hypothesis Testing; Confirmation Bias: Tell Me I'm Right; A More Realistic Study of Confirmation Bias; When Your Brain Is Biased; Science: How We Got Here; Prove I'm Wrong, or Give Me the Most Bang for the Buck?; Ok, Show Me I'm Wrong; Stopgaps and Backup Systems EIGHT: Problem SolvingWhen Problems Are Well-Defined; When Problems Are Not So Well-Defined; Finding the Way There; Artificial Intelligence: Machines That Think; How Experts Solve Problems; Insight and Genius; NINE: Analogical Reasoning; Analogy as It Should Be Done; Analogy: How It Is Actually Done; Why Analogy Is the Core of Cognition; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790236603321 |
Cummins Denise D. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Good thinking : seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think / / Denise D. Cummins [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Cummins Denise D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 153.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Game theory Rational choice theory |
ISBN |
1-139-41098-9
1-107-22308-3 1-139-41926-9 1-139-04792-2 1-139-42130-1 1-139-41721-5 1-139-42335-5 |
Classificazione | PSY008000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Good Thinking; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; ONE: Introduction; TWO: Game Theory; The Basics of Game Theory; Game Theory and the Battle of the Sexes; Game Theory and Avoiding Mary's Inappropriate Co-Worker; Game Theory and Deciding Whether or Not to Trust; Experimental Economics: What Do People Actually Do?; Differences in Power and Status Influence How Fairly We Treat Others; Neuroscience Makes It Clearer Why We Behave the Way We Do; The Evolution of Cooperation; THREE: Rational Choice; How the "Big Boys" Think about Decision Making
How to Be More BayesianWhen We Are Not Bayesian; How the Question Is Framed Determines Whether You Get It Right or Wrong; Your Brain on Decision Making; Decision Making in the Real World: The Economic Meltdown of 2008; FOUR: Moral Decision Making; Church and State Weigh in on Morality; What David Hume Had to Say; What Immanuel Kant Had to Say; What Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill Had to Say; What Seems Right to Us: The Psychology of Moral Judgment; Yes, but What Is Morality for?; FIVE: The Game of Logic; A Journey into Logic Land; Just How Logical Are People, Really? What to Do When the World (or Your Mind) ChangesSIX: What Causes What?; The Paradox of Causality; How the Experts Decide What Causes What; How Your Brain Decides What Causes What; What Is Necessary? What Is Sufficient?; How What You Believe Influences How You Decide; The Causal Paradox Revisited: What Infants Told Us; SEVEN: Hypothesis Testing; Confirmation Bias: Tell Me I'm Right; A More Realistic Study of Confirmation Bias; When Your Brain Is Biased; Science: How We Got Here; Prove I'm Wrong, or Give Me the Most Bang for the Buck?; Ok, Show Me I'm Wrong; Stopgaps and Backup Systems EIGHT: Problem SolvingWhen Problems Are Well-Defined; When Problems Are Not So Well-Defined; Finding the Way There; Artificial Intelligence: Machines That Think; How Experts Solve Problems; Insight and Genius; NINE: Analogical Reasoning; Analogy as It Should Be Done; Analogy: How It Is Actually Done; Why Analogy Is the Core of Cognition; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822639203321 |
Cummins Denise D. | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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