The Book Depository Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan
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Description: Why We Make Mistakes : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780767928069 : 0767928067 : 09 Feb 2010 : Journalist Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error, and offers this fascinating investigation of the science behind human imperfections. The Book Depository Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780767928069
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Author: Dr. Peter Davies
Rating: 5
Review: This is a well written book on a theme that is becoming increasingly focused on these days. Basically as humans we cannot think too much, for too long or too accurately. We do some things well, but we struggle to maintain accuracy and precision for long. This book is a gentle account of how and why we get things wrong, and it's written in a conversational style that shows the author is just as vulnerable to our cognitive flaws as anyone else. He's writing with us and for us, not about us. If you want to understand why you and I keep making mistakes of one sort and another this book is a good guide to the field. The field of behavioural economics and decision analysis is opening new understandings about how we come to behave as we do, and it's opening up a more tolerant and tolerable view of human functioning and performance.
Author: ST Nicholls
Rating: 3
Review: If you want a very readable introduction to this topic area, then this is probably a good choice, ideal reading for a holiday or long journey. If however you are looking for new, in depth, incisive scholarly insights into this topic area then this book isn't the one for you. This sit squarely in the "popular psychology" section of the bookstore and has no pretense to be anything more.
