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Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience : why we can't trust our brains / / Caleb W. Lack, Jacques Rousseau ; acquisitions editor Nancy Hale
| Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience : why we can't trust our brains / / Caleb W. Lack, Jacques Rousseau ; acquisitions editor Nancy Hale |
| Autore | Lack Caleb W. <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Springer Publishing Company, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Critical thinking
Pseudoscience |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8261-9426-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Brains, Hearts, Guts, and Genitals; Preface; Reference; Acknowledgments; Share Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can't Trust Our Brains; Chapter 1: Why Do We Need Critical Thinking?; Knowledge and Empowerment; Justification; Relativism; If Actions Matter, Beliefs Do Too; Opinions, Beliefs, and Knowledge; Opinions and Beliefs; Knowledge; Justification of Beliefs; What's the Point of Critical Thinking?; The High-Ground Answer; The Middle-Ground Answer; The Low-Ground Answer; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References
Chapter 2: What Is Science?Hype Versus Hypotheses; Science: Not Always "Common Sense"; What Is Science?; Building Blocks of the Scientific Method; Scientific Reasoning; An Example; Induction and Deduction; Verification and Falsification; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References; Chapter 3: What Is Pseudoscience?; Why Is this a Problem?; The Demarcation Problem; Tips for Identifying Pseudoscience; Sensationalism and Oversimplification; Press Releases, Jargon, and "Churnalism"; Conflicts of Interest; Anecdotal Evidence; Small and/or Unrepresentative Sample Sizes; Cherry-Picking No Control Group, No Blind Testing; The Limits of Science; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References; Chapter 4: What Is Critical Thinking?; What Is a Skeptic?; Optimal, Not Perfect, Decisions; The Space of Reasons; Argument and Argumentation; Arguments and Nonarguments; A Global Debate; Critical Thinking-A Skeptic's Guide; Extraordinary Claims; Falsifiability; Occam's Razor and Ruling Out Rival Hypotheses; Fallacies; Engaging With Fallacies; Induction Versus Deduction; Logic and Truth Preservation; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References Chapter 5: Why Can't We Trust Our Brains?The Logically Illogical Brain; Confirmation Bias; Belief Perseverance; Hindsight Bias; Representative Heuristic; Availability Heuristic; Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristics; Getting Something from Nothing; Backmasking; The Face of a Martian; Religious Imagery in Unusual Places; Sports Curses and Jinxes; Seeing Because of Believing; Backmasking Unmasked; Jesus, Martian, and Joseph!; Statistical Unjinxing; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References; Chapter 6: Why Can't We Trust Our World?; Confirmation Bias and Motivated Reasoning The Backfire Effect; Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers; Moral Panics and Dietary Hyperbole; Is Sugar Addictive?; Pressure to Publish Scientific Research and Press Releases; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References; Chapter 7: Aliens, Abductions, and UFOs; Life Outside of Earth; Aliens Throughout History; Betty and Barney Hill's Abduction; Critical Thinking About Abduction Claims; Ancient Aliens and Modern Crashes; Conclusions; Questions for Reflection; References; Chapter 8: Psychic Powers and Talking to the Dead; Types of Psychic Powers; PSI Research and the Rise of Parapsychology Critically Examining PSI Positive Research |
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Lack Caleb W. <1978->
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| New York, New York : , : Springer Publishing Company, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience : why we can't trust our brains / / Caleb W. Lack, Jacques Rousseau ; acquisitions editor Nancy Hale
| Critical thinking, science, and pseudoscience : why we can't trust our brains / / Caleb W. Lack, Jacques Rousseau ; acquisitions editor Nancy Hale |
| Autore | Lack Caleb W. <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Springer Publishing Company, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Critical thinking
Pseudoscience |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8261-9426-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Why Do We Need Critical Thinking? -- 2. What Is Science? -- 3. What Is Pseudoscience? -- 4. What Is Critical Thinking? -- 5. Why Can’t We Trust Our Brains? -- 6. Why Can’t We Trust Our World? -- 7. Aliens, Abductions, and UFOs -- 8. Psychic Powers and Talking to the Dead -- 9. Unknown Animals and Cryptozoology -- 10. Evaluating Health Claims in Alternative Medicine -- 11. Alternative Medicine for Physical Health -- 12. Pseudoscience in Mental Health -- 13. The Relationship Between Science and Religion -- 14. Conclusions and Recommendations |
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Lack Caleb W. <1978->
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| New York, New York : , : Springer Publishing Company, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Do You QuantumThink? [[electronic resource] ] : New Thinking That Will Rock Your World
| Do You QuantumThink? [[electronic resource] ] : New Thinking That Will Rock Your World |
| Autore | Collins Dianne |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : SelectBooks, Inc., 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (734 p.) |
| Disciplina |
153.4/2
153.42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Creative thinking
Quantum theory Social Sciences Psychology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-59079-219-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Do You QuantumThink?; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Part I Wake Up; 1 Situation; 2 Premise; 3 Revelation; 4 Realities; 5 Wisdom; 6 Leap; 7 Mind; 8 Mastery; 9 Method; 10 Stories; 11 Light; Part II Live the Wisdom: The QuantumThink Distinctions; 1 Holistic & Holographic; 2 Observer-created Reality; 3 Infinite Possibility; 4 Success to Mastery; 5 Allowing; 6 Being in One Conversation; 7 Perspective of All Perspectives; 8 Transformation As Distinct From Change; 9 4 Aspects of Knowing; 10 Being Centered; 11 Intuition and Nonlocality
12 Beyond Time13 Multidimensional Universe-Multidimensional Being; 14 From Either/Or to Both/And; 15 The Art of Distinguishing: A New World View of Learning; 16 Emotions and The Power of Mind: Transcend, Transmute, Transform; 17 Conscious Evolution; 18 The Holomovement of Purpose; 19 Energy In Flux; 20 Resonance-The Zing of String; 21 Zero-Point State: The Power in Nothing; 22 Living Fully Dimensionally; Going Forward; Endnotes; Selected Bibliography and Recommended Reading; Acknowledgments; The Origins of QuantumThink®; About the Author and Opportunities to QuantumThink®; Back Cover |
| Altri titoli varianti | Do You QuantumThink? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162661203321 |
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Collins Dianne
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| Minneapolis, : SelectBooks, Inc., 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder
| The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GreifenederRainer
UnkelbachChristian |
| Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Cognition Social interaction |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-07893-4
1-136-15790-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Experiencing thinking; PART I Principles of fluency; 2 A general model of fluency effects in judgment and decision making; 3 The sources of fluency: Identifying the underlying mechanisms of fluency effects; 4 Once more with feeling! Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure; 5 Fluency in context: Discrepancy makes processing experiences informative; 6 Disfluency sleeper effect: Disfluency today promotes fluency tomorrow; PART II Fluency in social processing
7 Ease and persuasion: Multiple processes, meanings, and effects8 Assimilation or contrast? How fluency channels comparison processing; 9 When good blends go bad: How fluency can explain when we like and dislike ambiguity; 10 Almost everything you always wanted to know about ease-of-retrieval effects; PART III Adaptive and strategic uses of fluency; 11 Critical feeling: The strategic use of processing fluency; 12 The ecological validity of fluency; 13 About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets: A process perspective on fluency's validity in judgment 14 Fluency and behavior regulation: Adaptive and maladaptive consequences of a good feelingPART IV Final assessment; 15 Thinking about ""experiences of thinking"": Fluency in six principles; Author index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463138603321 |
| New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder
| The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GreifenederRainer
UnkelbachChristian |
| Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Cognition Social interaction |
| ISBN |
1-136-15789-1
0-203-07893-4 1-136-15790-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Experiencing thinking; PART I Principles of fluency; 2 A general model of fluency effects in judgment and decision making; 3 The sources of fluency: Identifying the underlying mechanisms of fluency effects; 4 Once more with feeling! Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure; 5 Fluency in context: Discrepancy makes processing experiences informative; 6 Disfluency sleeper effect: Disfluency today promotes fluency tomorrow; PART II Fluency in social processing
7 Ease and persuasion: Multiple processes, meanings, and effects8 Assimilation or contrast? How fluency channels comparison processing; 9 When good blends go bad: How fluency can explain when we like and dislike ambiguity; 10 Almost everything you always wanted to know about ease-of-retrieval effects; PART III Adaptive and strategic uses of fluency; 11 Critical feeling: The strategic use of processing fluency; 12 The ecological validity of fluency; 13 About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets: A process perspective on fluency's validity in judgment 14 Fluency and behavior regulation: Adaptive and maladaptive consequences of a good feelingPART IV Final assessment; 15 Thinking about ""experiences of thinking"": Fluency in six principles; Author index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786722903321 |
| New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder
| The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GreifenederRainer
UnkelbachChristian |
| Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Cognition Social interaction |
| ISBN |
1-136-15789-1
0-203-07893-4 1-136-15790-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Experiencing thinking; PART I Principles of fluency; 2 A general model of fluency effects in judgment and decision making; 3 The sources of fluency: Identifying the underlying mechanisms of fluency effects; 4 Once more with feeling! Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure; 5 Fluency in context: Discrepancy makes processing experiences informative; 6 Disfluency sleeper effect: Disfluency today promotes fluency tomorrow; PART II Fluency in social processing
7 Ease and persuasion: Multiple processes, meanings, and effects8 Assimilation or contrast? How fluency channels comparison processing; 9 When good blends go bad: How fluency can explain when we like and dislike ambiguity; 10 Almost everything you always wanted to know about ease-of-retrieval effects; PART III Adaptive and strategic uses of fluency; 11 Critical feeling: The strategic use of processing fluency; 12 The ecological validity of fluency; 13 About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets: A process perspective on fluency's validity in judgment 14 Fluency and behavior regulation: Adaptive and maladaptive consequences of a good feelingPART IV Final assessment; 15 Thinking about ""experiences of thinking"": Fluency in six principles; Author index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910800032403321 |
| New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder
| The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour / / edited by Christian Unkelbach and Rainer Greifeneder |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GreifenederRainer
UnkelbachChristian |
| Soggetto topico |
Thought and thinking
Cognition Social interaction |
| ISBN |
1-136-15789-1
0-203-07893-4 1-136-15790-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Experiencing thinking; PART I Principles of fluency; 2 A general model of fluency effects in judgment and decision making; 3 The sources of fluency: Identifying the underlying mechanisms of fluency effects; 4 Once more with feeling! Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure; 5 Fluency in context: Discrepancy makes processing experiences informative; 6 Disfluency sleeper effect: Disfluency today promotes fluency tomorrow; PART II Fluency in social processing
7 Ease and persuasion: Multiple processes, meanings, and effects8 Assimilation or contrast? How fluency channels comparison processing; 9 When good blends go bad: How fluency can explain when we like and dislike ambiguity; 10 Almost everything you always wanted to know about ease-of-retrieval effects; PART III Adaptive and strategic uses of fluency; 11 Critical feeling: The strategic use of processing fluency; 12 The ecological validity of fluency; 13 About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets: A process perspective on fluency's validity in judgment 14 Fluency and behavior regulation: Adaptive and maladaptive consequences of a good feelingPART IV Final assessment; 15 Thinking about ""experiences of thinking"": Fluency in six principles; Author index; Subject index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817362703321 |
| New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]]
| Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Stewart Ian <1945-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Consciousness Intellect Genetic psychology Cultural pluralism |
| ISBN |
1-107-11102-1
0-511-00336-6 1-280-42918-6 0-511-17217-6 0-511-14898-4 0-511-30942-2 0-511-54138-4 0-511-05366-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The origins of life -- The reductionist nightmare -- Ant country -- Winning ways -- Universals and parochials -- Neural nests -- Features great and small -- What is it like to be a human? -- We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is -- Extelligence -- Simplex, complex, multiplex. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455094103321 |
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Stewart Ian <1945->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]]
| Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Stewart Ian <1945-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Consciousness Intellect Genetic psychology Cultural pluralism |
| ISBN |
1-107-11102-1
0-511-00336-6 1-280-42918-6 0-511-17217-6 0-511-14898-4 0-511-30942-2 0-511-54138-4 0-511-05366-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The origins of life -- The reductionist nightmare -- Ant country -- Winning ways -- Universals and parochials -- Neural nests -- Features great and small -- What is it like to be a human? -- We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is -- Extelligence -- Simplex, complex, multiplex. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778870803321 |
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Stewart Ian <1945->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]]
| Figments of reality : the evolution of the curious mind / / Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Stewart Ian <1945-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 153.4/2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Consciousness Intellect Genetic psychology Cultural pluralism |
| ISBN |
1-107-11102-1
0-511-00336-6 1-280-42918-6 0-511-17217-6 0-511-14898-4 0-511-30942-2 0-511-54138-4 0-511-05366-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The origins of life -- The reductionist nightmare -- Ant country -- Winning ways -- Universals and parochials -- Neural nests -- Features great and small -- What is it like to be a human? -- We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is -- Extelligence -- Simplex, complex, multiplex. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819500103321 |
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Stewart Ian <1945->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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