'A world-class tune-up for your brain.' Daniel H. PinkWhy do we think we’re better prepared for job interviews than we are? Why does no one act on climate change? Why do we over think when something bad happens to us?Renowned psychologist Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale called 'Thinking' to help students examine the biases that cause people so many problems in their daily lives. It quickly became one of the university’s most popular courses. Now, for the first time, she presents key insights from her years of teaching and research.It’s well known that our minds are tripped up by error, cognitive bias and prejudice. But knowing that isn’t enough: the thinking problems still exist. In this clear guide, Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn gives clear and practical steps to actually change our thinking. The natural follow-up to Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, Thinking 101 shows how we can improve not just our own daily lives through better awareness of our biases, but the lives of everyone around us. It is required reading for everyone who wants to think - and live - better.
CONTRIBUTORS: Woo-kyoung Ahn
EAN: 9781529065879
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 362 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
WIDTH: 153 cm
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Cognition and cognitive psychology, Popular psychology
Terrific. Ahn offers compelling, research-based ways to limit the unwanted impact of thinking problems, An invaluable resource to anyone who wants to think better. In remarkably clear language, and with engaging and often funny examples, Woo-kyoung Ahn uses cutting-edge research to explain the mistakes we often make – and how to avoid them., Ahn uses wonderfully engaging examples to show how we can understand and improve our reasoning, Thinking 101 is a must-read – a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think. Building from her popular Yale course, Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn shows how a better understanding of how our minds work can help us become smarter and wiser – and even kinder, Thinking 101 combines the best science with practical advice to help you make better decisions. Ahn’s stories are spot-on, they are humorous, and they show us how thinking can be turned on itself to overcome the biases from, well, thinking!
Woo-kyoung Ahn is the John Hay Whitney Professor of Psychology at Yale University. After receiving her Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was Assistant Professor at Yale University and Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Her research on thinking biases has been funded by NIH. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She absolutely loves teaching her Thinking course, one of the most popular classes at Yale.
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