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From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalising in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe - and shoot down those we don''t.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if we want to get things right more often we should train ourselves to think more like a scout. Unlike the soldier, a scout''s goal isn''t to defend one side over the other. It''s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what''s actually true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Scout Mindset\u003c\/i\u003e, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn''t that they''re smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. 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It's not easy to become (more of) a scout, but it's hard not to be inspired by this book -- Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists\u003cbr\u003eWe know a lot about how flawed human reasoning is, but surprisingly little about how to repair it in our daily lives. Thankfully, Julia Galef is here to change that. With insights that are both sharp and actionable, her book picks up where \u003ci\u003ePredictably Irrational\u003c\/i\u003e left off. Reading it will teach you to think more clearly, see yourself more accurately, and be wrong a little less often -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, host of WorkLife podcast\u003cbr\u003eJulia understands human thinking with incredible clarity and she's a master at communicating that clarity to others through her writing and metaphors. I haven't stopped thinking about the scout mindset ever since I first heard Julia explain it -- Tim Urban, writer and creator of Wait But Why\u003cbr\u003eJulia Galef is one of the smartest, most exciting voices not just in American rationalism, but in American writing period. She is consistently fascinating -- Johann Hari, international bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost Connections\u003cbr\u003eJulia Galef, one of our foremost experts on identifying the problem of motivated reasoning and cognitive biases, has produced the best work to date on what to do about it, both personally to improve our lives and socially to make the world a more rational and reasonable place for all. 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The delight it takes in questioning its own premises, and understanding the alternative arguments, will make you want to be a scout, too -- Ezra Klein, cofounder of Vox, author of Why We Are Polarized, and host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast\u003cbr\u003eI've learned more about how to think and reason well from Julia Galef than from almost anyone -- Dylan Matthews, senior correspondent at Vox","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733678764375,"sku":"9780349427652","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349427652.jpg?v=1720001181"},{"product_id":"the-scout-mindset-why-some-people-see-things-clearly-and-others-dont-9780349427645","title":"The Scout Mindset Why Some People See Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of best smart thinking book 2022 (Business Book Awards)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003ebest books of 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read'' Tim Harford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Highly recommended. 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It's not easy to become (more of) a scout, but it's hard not to be inspired by this book -- Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists\u003cbr\u003eWe know a lot about how flawed human reasoning is, but surprisingly little about how to repair it in our daily lives. Thankfully, Julia Galef is here to change that. With insights that are both sharp and actionable, her book picks up where \u003ci\u003ePredictably Irrational\u003c\/i\u003e left off. Reading it will teach you to think more clearly, see yourself more accurately, and be wrong a little less often -- Adam Grant, author of Originals and Give and Take, host of WorkLife podcast\u003cbr\u003eJulia understands human thinking with incredible clarity and she's a master at communicating that clarity to others through her writing and metaphors. I haven't stopped thinking about the scout mindset ever since I first heard Julia explain it -- Tim Urban, writer and creator of Wait But Why\u003cbr\u003eJulia Galef is one of the smartest, most exciting voices not just in American rationalism, but in American writing period. She is consistently fascinating -- Johann Hari, international bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost Connections\u003cbr\u003eJulia Galef, one of our foremost experts on identifying the problem of motivated reasoning and cognitive biases, has produced the best work to date on what to do about it, both personally to improve our lives and socially to make the world a more rational and reasonable place for all. 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This lucidly written text delivers insights from cognitive psychology, aptly combining with interdependent findings from fields as diverse as neuropsychology, behavioural economics, social, developmental and clinical psychology, and philosophy. Offering not only a comprehensive explanation of the neurological structures and cognitive processes that underlie how we make decisions and form judgments in our everyday lives, readers can expect to learn the implications \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e these decisions upon an individual's prospects for health and longevity.Understanding behaviour is a central aspect of inquiry in the psyc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy Kim’s comprehensive and engaging text is the perfect introduction to the exciting breadth of this increasingly recognised field in psychology. 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This volume synthesizs the literatures on leadership, group dynamics, organizational theory, and coalition politics to demonstrate how the nature of the decision unity shapes foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eSynthesizes theories on leadership, group dynamics, organizational theory, and coalition politics to demonstrate how the nature of the decision unit shapes foreign policy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAuthors explore how policymakers'' preferences become aggregated in the foreign policymaking process when there is a predominant leader or there are single groups or coalitions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eDoes Decision Making Matter?\u003c\/b\u003e Joe D. 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Written as an introductory text, it looks at the subject from the viewpoint of a newcomer to the field, beginning with utility theory and arriving at the most sophisticated ideas discussed today. Myerson not only gives complete mathematical statements and proofs, but also supplies the intuitive arguments that motivate them...Because of its comprehensiveness, researchers and users of game theory can find descriptions of almost all special game theoretic topics and issues presented in \"user friendly\" style...It is very likely that Myerson's \u003ci\u003eGame Theory\u003c\/i\u003e will remain the main introductory text for many years to come. -- Ehud Kalai * Games and Economic Behavior *\u003cbr\u003eExposing an applied mathematics field on a basic level poses a challenge to an author, namely, to find the proper mix of displaying the models, providing the motivation and presenting the mathematical results and derivations. This is even more true in a field like game theory, where the models are not universally acceptable as adequately depicting real applications. The author, in the text under review, is doing remarkably well. The models are displayed with enough details and explanations to generate motivation even in newcomers to the field...All in all, it is a very good elaborate introduction to game theory. -- Zvi Artstein * Mathematical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eMyerson provides a good introduction to game theory, focusing on the 'generality and unity of game theory' rather than on its extensive applications. After a brief overview of Bayesian decision theory, noncooperative and cooperative models of games are explored in the context of their solutions, results, and guiding methodological principles. The relative merits of the extensive form and the strategic form of a game are illustrated, which lead naturally into an analysis of equilibria for each representation. 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Basic Models   2.1 Games in Extensive Form    2.2 Strategic Form and the Normal Representation   2.3 Equivalence of Strategic-Form Games   2.4 Reduced Normal Representations   2.5 Elimination of Dominated Strategies   2.6 Multiagent Representations   2.7 Common Knowledge   2.8 Bayesian Games   2.9 Modeling Games with Incomplete Information   Exercises    3. Equilibria of Strategic-Form Games   3.1 Domination and Ratonalizability   3.2 Nash Equilibrium   3.3\tComputing Nash Equilibria   3.4\tSignificance of Nash Equilibria   3.5\tThe Focal-Point Effect   3.6\tThe Decision-Analytic Approach to Games   3.7\tEvolution. Resistance. and Risk Dominance   3.8\tTwo-Person Zero-Sum Games   3.9\tBayesian Equilibria   3.10 Purification of Randomized Strategies in Equilibria   3.11 Auctions   3.12 Proof of Existence of Equilibrium   3.13 Infinite Strategy Sets   Exercises    4. Sequential Equilibria of Extensive-Form Games   4.1\tMixed Strategies and Behavioral Strategies   4.2\tEquilibria in Behavioral Strategies   4.3\tSequential Rationality at Information States with Positive Probability   4.4\tConsistent Beliefs and Sequential Rationality at All Information States   4.5\tComputing Sequential Equilibria   4.6\tSubgame-Perfect Equilibria   4.7 Games with Perfect Information   4.8\tAdding Chance Events with Small Probability   4.9\tForward Induction   4.10 Voting and Binary Agendas   4.11 Technical Proofs   Exercises     5. Refinements of Equilibrium in Strategic Form   5.1\tIntroduction   5.2\tPerfect Equilibria   5.3\tExistence of Perfect and Sequential Equilibria   5.4\tProper Equilibria   5.5\tPersistent Equilibria   5.6\tStable Sets 01 Equilibria   5.7\tGeneric Properties   5.8\tConclusions   Exercises    6. Games with Communication   6.1\tContracts and Correlated Strategies   6.2 Correlated Equilibria   6.3 Bayesian Games with Communication   6.4\tBayesian Collective-Choice Problems and Bayesian Bargaining Problems    6.5\tTrading Problems with Linear Utility   6.6\tGeneral Participation Constraints for Bayesian Games with Contracts   6.7\tSender-Receiver Games   6.8\tAcceptable and Predominant Correlated Equilibria   6.9\tCommunication in Extensive-Form and Multistage Games   Exercises   Bibliographic Note    7. Repeated Games   7.1\tThe Repeated Prisoners Dilemma   7.2\tA General Model of Repeated Garnet   7.3\tStationary Equilibria of Repeated Games with Complete State Information and Discounting   7.4\tRepeated Games with Standard Information: Examples   7.5\tGeneral Feasibility Theorems for Standard Repeated Games   7.6\tFinitely Repeated Games and the Role of Initial Doubt   7.7\tImperfect Observability of Moves   7.8\tRepeated Wines in Large Decentralized Groups   7.9\tRepeated Games with Incomplete Information   7.10 Continuous Time   7.11 Evolutionary Simulation of Repeated Games   Exercises     8. Bargaining and Cooperation in Two-Person Games   8.1\tNoncooperative Foundations of Cooperative Game Theory   8.2\tTwo-Person Bargaining Problems and the Nash Bargaining Solution   8.3\tInterpersonal Comparisons of Weighted Utility   8.4\tTransferable Utility   8.5\tRational Threats   8.6\tOther Bargaining Solutions   8.7\tAn Alternating-Offer Bargaining Game   8.8\tAn Alternating-Offer Game with Incomplete Information   8.9\tA Discrete Alternating-Offer Game   8.10 Renegotiation   Exercises    9. Coalitions in Cooperative Games   9.1\tIntroduction to Coalitional Analysis   9.2\tCharacteristic Functions with Transferable Utility   9.3\tThe Core   9.4\tThe Shapkey Value   9.5\tValues with Cooperation Structures   9.6\tOther Solution Concepts   9.7\tColational Games with Nontransferable Utility   9.8\tCores without Transferable Utility   9.9\tValues without Transferable Utility   Exercises   Bibliographic Note    10. Cooperation under Uncertainty   10.1 Introduction   10.2 Concepts of Efficiency   10.3 An Example   10.4 Ex Post Inefficiency and Subsequent Oilers   10.5 Computing Incentive-Efficient Mechanisms   10.6 Inscrutability and Durability   10.7 Mechanism Selection by an Informed Principal   10.8 Neutral Bargaining Solutions   10.9 Dynamic Matching Processes with Incomplete Information   Exercises    Bibliography   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403585233239,"sku":"9780674341166","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"practice-for-life-9780674970663","title":"Practice for Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUndergraduates do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end. Their engagement with higher education is at best episodic. 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The depth of research reflected in this book, involving hundreds of students interviewed over the course of four years of college, makes it a unique resource for college and university administrators, professors, and students and families who seek to understand the nature of the college experience. -- Alison Byerly, President, Lafayette College\u003cbr\u003eThis book…reminds us that a substantial amount of the learning that takes place—perhaps the majority of it—occurs outside of the college classroom. The arguments in this book will remain with me in the coming years in my role as a faculty adviser, or when I am meeting with students in my office hours, or even when I am considering how to invite students to connect more deeply with my courses. -- James M. 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The author argues for schoolsto be restructured as places where students reach out for meaningsand where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. Sheinvites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate theirown visions through the application of imagination and the arts.Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for alleducators, particularly those in teacher education, and for generaland academic readers.\" (Choice)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, makes an impassionedargument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and forbreaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worldsother than our own familiar cultures.... 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No one is better qualified to map the invisible webs of influence that constrain all we do.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Philip E. Tetlock, author of \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Elements of Choice\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read for anyone interested in the hidden forces that shape our daily decisions. And as one of the foremost scholars of judgment and decision making, Eric Johnson is the perfect person to write this important and engaging book.’\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Katy Milkman, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I love this book. It shows how you can be influenced, when making decisions, by the way the choices are presented to you. Do you think you made up your own mind about saving, spending or investing? Maybe you were subtly guided toward choices best for the financial institution, not for you. \u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eElements of Choice\u003c\/em\u003e will open your eyes.’\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jane Bryant Quinn, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Make Your Money Last\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Elements of Choice\u003c\/em\u003e is a manual for designers, policy-makers, and founders to understand how consumers choose. I hope it’ll be used to design smarter apps, menus, and policies that help us all choose better.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jon Stein, founder and chairman of Betterment\u003cbr\u003e‘An engaging and useful guide to the seemingly inconsequential factors that influence our choices. If you want to make better choices, this book is your chance to learn from a master choice architect.’ -- Barbara Mellers, George I. Heyman University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Readers will be fascinated by this persuasive exploration.’\u003c\/p\u003e * \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406361534807,"sku":"9780861544998","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780861544998.jpg?v=1730495539"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/decision-theory-general.oembed?page=5","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}