The art of thinking clearly / Rolf Dobelli; translated by Nicky Griffin.
Publication details: New York, NY : Harper, 2013.Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 358 pages ; 17 cmISBN:- 9780062343963
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Dobelli, R. (2013). The art of thinking clearly (1st ed.). New York, NY: Harper.
Introduction -- Why You Should Visit Cemeteries: Survivorship Bias -- Does Harvard Make You Smarter?: Swimmer's Body Illusion -- Why You See Shapes in the Clouds: Clustering Illusion -- If Fifty Million People Say Something Foolish, It Is Still Foolish: Social Proof -- Why You Should Forget the Past: Sunk Cost Fallacy -- Don't Accept Free Drinks: Reciprocity -- Beware the "Special Case": Confirmation Bias (Part 1) -- Murder Your Darlings: Confirmation Bias (Part 2) -- Don't Bow to Authority: Authority Bias -- Leave Your Supermodel Friends at Home: Contrast Effect -- Why We Prefer a Wrong Map to None at All: Availability Bias -- Why "No Pain, No Gain" Should Set Alarm Bells Ringing: The It'll-Get-Worse-Before-It-Gets-Better Fallacy -- Even True Stories Are Fairy Tales: Story Bias -- Why You Should Keep a Diary: Hindsight Bias -- Why You Systematically Overestimate Your Knowledge and Abilities: Overconfidence Effect -- Don't Take News Anchors Seriously: Chauffeur Knowledge -- You Control Less Than You Think: Illusion of Control -- Never Pay Your Lawyer by the Hour: Incentive Super-Response Tendency -- The Dubious Efficacy of Doctors, Consultants, and Psychotherapists: Regression to Mean -- Never Judge a Decision by Its Outcome: Outcome Bias -- Less is More: Paradox of Choice -- You Like Me, You Really, Really Like Me: Liking Bias -- Don't Cling to Things: Endowment Effect -- The Inevitability of Unlikely Events: Coincidence -- The Calamity of Conformity: Groupthink -- Why YOu'll Soon Be Playing Mega Trillions: Neglect of Probability -- Why the Last Cookie in the Jar Makes Your Mouth Water: Scarcity Error -- When Yo Hear Hoofbeats, Don't Expect a Zebra: Base-Rate Neglect -- Why the "Balancing Force of the Universe" Is Baloney: Gambler's Fallacy -- Why the Wheel of Fortune makes Our Heads Spin: The Anchor -- How to Relieve People of Their millions: Induction -- Why Evil Is More Striking Than Good: Loss Aversion -- Why Teams Are Lazy: Social Loafing -- Stumped by a Sheet of Paper: Exponential Growth -- Curb Your Enthusiasm: Winner's Curse -- Never Ask a Writer If the Novel Is Autobiographical: Fundamental Attribution Error -- Why You Shouldn't Believe in the Stork: False Causality -- Why Attractive People Climb the Career Ladder More Quickly: Halo Effect -- Congratulations! You've Won Russian Roulette: Alternative Paths -- False Prophets: Forecast Illusion -- The Deception of Specific Cases: Conjunction Fallacy -- It's Not What You Say, but How You Say It: Framing -- Why Watching and Waiting Is Torture: Action Bias -- Why You Are Either the Solution-or the Problem: Omission Bias -- Don't Blame Me: Self-Serving Bias -- Be Careful What You Wish For: Hedonic Treadmill -- Do Not marvel at Your Existence: Self-Selection Bias -- Why Experience Can Damage Your Judgement: Association Bias -- Be Wary When Things Get Off to a Great Start: Beginner's Luck -- Sweet Little Lies: Cognitive Dissonance -- Live Each Day as If It Were Your Last-but Only on Sundays: Hyperbolic Discounting -- Any Lame Excuse: "Because" Justificaiton -- Decide Better-Decide Less: Decision Fatigue -- Would You Wear Hitler's Sweater?: Contagion Bias -- Why There Is No Such Thing as an Average War: The Problem with Averages -- How Bonuses Destroy Motivation: Motivation Crowding -- If You Have Nothing to Say, Say Nothing: Twaddle Tendency -- How to Increase the Average IQ of Two States: Will Rogers Phenomenon -- If You Have an Enemy, Give Him Information: Information Bias -- Hurts So Good: Effort Justification -- Why Small Things Loom Large: The Law of Small Numbers -- Handle with Care: Expectations -- Speed Traps Ahead: Simple Logic -- How to Expose a Charlatan: Forer Effect -- Volunteer Work Is for the Birds: Volunteer's Folly -- Why You Are a Slave to Your Emotions: Affect Heuristic -- Be Your Own Heretic: Introspection Illusion -- Why You Should Set Fire to Your Ships: Inability to Close Doors -- Disregard the Brand New: Neomania -- Why Propaganda Works: Sleeper Effect -- Why It's Never Just a Two-Horse Race: Alternative Blindness -- Why We Take Aim at Young Guns: Social Comparison Bias -- Why First Impressions Are Deceiving: Primacy and Recency Effects -- Why You Can't Beat Homemade: Not-Invented-Here Syndrome -- How to Profit from the Implausible: The Black Swan -- Knowledge Is Nontransferable: Domain Dependence -- The Myth of Like-Mindedness: False-Consensus Effect -- You Were Right All Along: Falsification of History -- Why You Identify with Your Football Team: In-Group Out-Group Bias -- The Difference between Risk and Uncertainty: Ambiguity Aversion -- Why You Go with the Status Quo: Default Effect -- Why "Last Chances" make Us Panic: Fear of Regret -- How Eye-Catching Details Render Us Blind: Salience Effect -- Why Money Is Not Naked: House-Money Effect -- Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work: Procrastination -- Build Your Own Castle: Envy -- Why You Prefer Novels to Statistics: Personification -- You Have No Idea What You Are Overlooking: Illusion of Attention -- Hot Air: Strategic Misrepresentation -- Where's the Off Switch?: Overthinking -- Why You Take On Too Much: Planning Fallacy -- Those Wielding Hammers See Only Nails: Deformation Professionnelle -- Mission Accomplished: Zeigarnik Effect -- The Boat Matters More Than the Rowing: Illusion of Skill -- Why Checklists Deceive You: Feature-Positive Effect -- Drawing the Bull's-Eye around the Arrow: Cherry Picking -- The Stone Age Hunt for Scapegoats: Fallacy of the Single Cause -- Why Speed Demons Appear to Be Safer Drivers: Intention-to-Treat Error -- Why You Shouldn't Read the News: News Illusion -- Epilogue
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