Within a few short years, research on counterfactual thinking has mushroomed, establishing itself as one of the signature domains within social psychology. Counterfactuals...
This new edition of the seminal 1959 work retains the original analysis of commonsense causal concepts, and includes hundreds of new decisions and a substantial preface in...
What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic exp...
In 1986 Dr. David Snowdon, one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease, embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we vie...
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best ...
Насколько надежна наша интуиция? Можем ли мы полагаться на нее, когда делаем покупки в магазине, выбираем спутника жизни, нанимаем сотрудников или оцениваем собственные сп...
Взаимные фонды с точки зрения здравого смысла. Новые императивы для разумного инвестора
Джон Богл, David Swensen
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(4)Взаимные (паевые) фонды - один из самых гибких и эффективных инструментов инвестирования в ценные бумаги. Даже если инвестор обладает очень скромной суммой, но хотел бы по...
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission...
В основе книги лежит реальная история спортивного менеджера Билли Бина, совершившего настоящую революцию в бейсболе. Он придумал новый подход, начав набирать недооцененных...
If not for the work of his half cousin Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory might have met a somewhat different fate. In particular, with no direct evidenc...
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and impr...
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Sl...
Major changes in this edition include the substitution of probabilistic arguments for combinatorial artifices, and the addition of new sections on branching processes, Mar...
This volume takes a positive spin on the field of statistics. Statistics is seen by students as difficult and boring, however, the authors of this book have eliminated tha...
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science an...
Psychophysics is a lively account by one of experimental psychology's seminal figures of his lifelong scientific quest for general laws governing human behavior. It is a l...
Originally published in 1963, this is a classic work on the psychology of perception. By means of suitable patterns on a partly concealed rotating disc Michotte was able t...
World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more
vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she...
The phenomena of effortless attention and action and the challenges they pose to current cognitive models of attention and action. This is the first book to explore the co...