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Books : Intuition: Its Powers and Perils (Yale Nota Bene) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.44
EAN: 9780300103038
ISBN: 0300103034
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: April 10, 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
Sales Rank: 123606
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How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis? In this engaging book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful--and often amazing--insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.
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This is an amazing book; it explains how and why we think and respond in ways that we do, and how much of our entire thought process takes place below the surface of our conscious mind. Myers takes the results from dozens of psychological studies and explains them in ways that are interesting and humorous. He also looks at which elements of our intuition we should question, and which are more reliable. His writing style is engaging, and I had a hard time putting the book down. It is a fascinating ... Read More
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David Myers has written very clear introductory books in psychology and social psychology. This more-specialized book is as clear and easy to read as his work that's intended for college freshman.
Intuition, in the sense meant by psychologists, concerns thinking about things without conscious awareness of the thinking occuring and "feeling" that a decision or answer is right without being aware of how the decision or answer was arrived at. There are many situations in which people do this, ... Read More
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Myers has done a good job in this book but has overlooked the contributions of past intellectual giants like Frank Knight ,Joseph Schumpeter, and John Maynard Keynes,as well as the superb work of Gary Klein,on the role of intuition in business and general,practical,everyday decision making.Myers definition of intuition as " our capacity for direct knowledge,for immediate insight without observation or reason " is only half right and only half baked.What should be added to his definition is the ... Read More
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As a tool for prediction, scientific discovery, business management, and many other areas, intuition has been claimed by many to be essential, even superior to other more quantitative approaches to cognition. In fact, there is at the present time a fairly intense debate going on between two camps: one camp consisting of those who believe intuition to be the superior mode of cognition, and the other camp consisting of those who favor cognitive efforts that are governed by mathematical/computational algorithms. ... Read More
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I find it interesting that Meyers criticizes John Edward's "throw-it-all-out-there-and-see-what-sticks" method of conducting "psychic" readings when Meyers himself seems only to have culled blurbs on modern psychological studies that test some extremely limited function of "intuition," thrown in a witty quote every once in a while, and now presents his book as some sort of comprehensive statement on what human intuition is. After the initial novelty of the first chapter or two wears off, this book becomes quite ... Read More
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