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Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst /
People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What's the worst that could happen?
- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry
- Practicing positive asymmetry
- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement
- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences?
- Exceptions to the rule
- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles
- Can symmetrical vision be achieved?