What do economists mean when they refer to you as a “rational agent”? Why might a psychologist label your idea a “creative insight”? And how can different scientists disagree on the results of experiments that assess our risk for disease?
GOOD THINKING: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think illuminates the critical—and sometimes counterintuitive—problem-solving methods experts use to shape our world. The decisions they make affect our daily lives, determining whether we are guilty or innocent, where we should invest our money, and whether the medicine we are taking is effective.
In our book club this month, you can hear from Denise Cummins about the making of the book, take a quiz to see how your instincts stack up to those of the experts, and start a discussion using the reader’s guide. Find out how the best and brightest thinkers decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong – and learn why, when we don’t use these strategies, it’s not always a bad thing.
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SPECIAL SALE! As a special offer for book club members, get 30% off this month's book pick by using the code LIGHTBULB. You'll also get the discount on several related titles below, for further reading.
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Creativity in Science
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521543699)
- Publication date: May 2004
- Subject: Psychology research methods and statistics
Where do major scientific breakthroughs come from? Do they arise from the logic of the scientific method or do they result from flashes of genius? Are they the products of some mysterious zeitgeist or spirit of the times, or do they emerge from chance, from serendipity? This books provides an answer not by choosing one explanation and ignoring the others, but rather by unifying all four perspectives into a single theory in which chance plays the primary role, but with significant involvement of logic, genius and zeitgeist.
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- $30.99 (Z)
Critical Thinking
- 2nd Edition
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9781107401983)
- Publication date: October 2011
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- $27.00 (X)
Good Thinking
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521145503)
- Publication date: April 2012
- Subject: Cognition
Do you know what economists mean when they refer to you as a "rational agent"? Or why a psychologist might label your idea a "creative insight"? After reading this book, you will know how the best and brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.
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- $22.99 (G)
Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521279123)
- Publication date: June 2011
- Subject: Cognition
By showing how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, this book aims to transform your view of your own inner experience and to reframe your thinking about psychological and consciousness science. It provides provocative views of inner experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, and virtuosity, among others.
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- $37.99 (Z)
The Psychology of Problem Solving
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521797412)
- Publication date: June 2003
- Subject: Cognition
Problems are a central part of human life. The goal of The Psychology of Problem Solving is to organize in one volume what is known about problem solving and the factors that contribute to its success or failure. Unlike typical books on problem solving that are organized by content areas, such as mathematics and natural science, this book is organized by factors that affect problem solving performance, such as motivation, emotion, intellectual abilities, and working memory. The book constitutes the most thorough and up-to-date examination of problem solving currently available.
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- $37.99 (Z)
What Is Intelligence?
- Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521741477)
- Publication date: March 2009
- Subject: Personality psychology and individual differences
An expanded paperback edition of James R. Flynn's thought-provoking examination of dramatic increases in IQ gains over the twentieth century.
- Available, despatch within 1-2 weeks
- $20.99 (Z)