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The book focuses on why people make political decisions against their own self-interest, documenting the extent to which people are manipulated by bad-faith actors. [2] In the book, Moscrop argues that democracy is under threat but can be saved, emphasising the need for good process to resolve disagreements. [1]
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions is a 2022 book by author Todd Rose. The book illustrates that human thinking about one another is based on false assumptions that leads to bad decisions, and this makes the society mistrustful and individuals unhappy. [1] [2]
Moscrop has written for both The Washington Post [1] and Maclean's Magazine. [4] [5] He is the author of Too Dumb for Democracy? a 2019 book that documents how people make decisions against their own interests.
In chapter 8, Ariely discusses how we overvalue what we have, and why we make irrational decisions about ownership. The idea of ownership makes us perceive the value of an object to be much higher if we own the object. This illustrates the phenomenon of the endowment effect—placing a higher value on property once possession has been assigned.
Johnson uses a case-study approach to explore the deliberate, "full-spectrum" analysis process used by successful decision-makers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Examples range widely, from the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden to the destruction of Manhattan's Collect Pond , and even include the literary depiction of decision-making under uncertainty in ...
Oftentimes, this illusion causes individuals to embrace the decision, as bad as it may be, if they feel their disagreement is not shared with the other members of the group. [ 10 ] Perhaps the most researched consequence of pluralistic ignorance from an individualistic perspective is the bystander effect .
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Quintilian and classical rhetoric used the term color for the presenting of an action in the most favourable possible perspective. [5] Laurence Sterne in the eighteenth century took up the point, arguing that, were a man to consider his actions, "he will soon find, that such of them, as strong inclination and custom have prompted him to commit, are generally dressed out and painted with all ...