What are the chances? : why we believe in luck /
"Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coinciden...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is luck?
- A brief history of luck
- Luck and psychology : on being a social animal
- Luck and psychology : magical thinking
- Luck and your brain : part I
- Luck and your brain : part II
- How to get lucky
- Fortune's expensive smile.