What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.

Author/creator Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press,
Descriptionxv, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents Inside George W. Bush's mind : hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia : separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser : ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing : heads I win, tails I win too! -- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-301) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008037325
ISBN9780300123852 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN030012385X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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