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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]
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.
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) is a 2007 non-fiction book by social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.It deals with cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and other cognitive biases, using these psychological theories to illustrate how the perpetrators (and victims) of hurtful acts justify and rationalize their behavior.
It has consistently been one or the other for six consecutive years for the Dolphins at quarterback, where one bad choice after another has left the franchise compromised, and even a decision that ...
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]
We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in the century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War, but we came together as ...
Gilbert says, “A healthy psychological immune system strikes a balance that allows us to feel good enough to cope with our situation but bad enough to do something about it”. [ 2 ] : 162 The Corrigibility Section shows that illusions of foresight are best addressed when a person trying to anticipate a future experience turns to arbitrary ...
Once an action has been taken, the ways in which we evaluate the effectiveness of what we did may be biased. [3] It is believed this may influence our future decision-making. These biases may be stored as memories, which are attributions that we make about our mental experiences based on their subjective qualities, our prior knowledge and ...