How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

By Thomas Gilovich. 1991

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The Process of Knowledge Transfer: A Diachronic Analysis of Stickiness (2000, background): “This kind of problem is more likely to create a distinct moment of difficulty in the transfer (Gilovich 1991) and thus is more likely to contribute to the overall perception of difficulty and to the intensity of efforts exerted to address and resolve problems (cf. March & Simon 1958).”
Exploring Causes of the Self‐serving Bias (2008, background): “Conversely, the more undesirable the conclusion, the more hypothesis-consistent information people require to accept it and the less hypothesis-inconsistent information people require to reject it (Gilovich, 1991).”
Change Blindness Blindness: The Metacognitive Error of Overestimating Change-detection Ability (2000, background): “A large body of research shows that subjects attend to “hits” more than “misses” when considering their success at everyday tasks (see for example, Gilovich, 1991; Hearst, 1991), and that these highly available instances exert a powerful effect on reasoning and decision making (Tversky & Kahneman, 1”
When what you type isn’t what they read: The perseverance of stereotypes and expectancies over e-mail (2005, background): “, Gilovich, T., & Regan, D. (2002). Motivated reasoning”
An examination of the underlying dimensional structure of three domains of contaminated mindware: paranormal beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-science attitudes (2020, unknown): “Our information processing system is inherently predisposed to reasoning errors and biases that lead to the accumulation of unwarranted beliefs (Gilovich, 1991; Nisbett & Ross, 1980).”
Educating Managers From an Evidence-Based Perspective (2007, background): “Such circumstances require learning how to experiment to generate local knowledge without falling prey to the biases to which typical managerial experience is subject (Gilovich, 1991; Dawes, 2001).”
The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation. (1994, unknown): “Like the drive theories but contrary to Hebb's perspective, the interpretation of curiosity proposed here assumes that curiosity is always aversive. The key to understanding curiosity seeking lies in recognizing that the process of satisfying curiosity is itself pleasurable. As William James comment”
Prejudice in Schools: Promotion of an Inclusive Culture and Climate (2010, background): “Stereotypes are defined as generalized traits attributed to a social group, and often develop out of a basic inclination to categorize and synthesize the large amounts of varied information encountered about people in daily life (Gilovich, 1991; Stephan, 1999).”
Conflicts Of Interest And The Case Of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction And Strategic Issue Cycling (2006, background): “When they cannot ignore conflicting evidence, they often subject it to additional critical scrutiny (Gilovich, 1991 ).”
Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task (2002, background): “It is this feature that has led the many advocates of “critical thinking” to argue that a skeptical mindset promotes sound reasoning (Gilovich, 1991; Sagan, 1996; Schick & Vaughn, 1999; Shermer, 1997; Stanovich, 2001).”