Why We Fear the Wrong Things

How Vivid Memories Hijack Your Decisions-And How to Fight Back

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Simon Blackwood

Verlag:

Readers First Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36876998

EAN: 9781804281932

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 15.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 31.50

Beschreibung

In Why We Fear the Wrong Things, author Simon Blackwood explores the availability heuristic. -the. predictable mechanism by which vivid, recent memories override statistical reality in the decisions people make. every day. Rather than a collection of tips for better thinking, this book forensically examines one cognitive bias. across eight real-world domains, documenting the precise moment judgment breaks down and what that. breakdown actually costs. Drawing on behavioral science and decades of research into memory and risk perception. , Simon Blackwood. reveals how the same error appears in choices as different as avoiding beaches after a shark sighting, pulling. children from ordinary independence after a single alarming headline, and driving cross-country in the year. after September 11 despite knowing, correctly, that flying is safer. The gap is not between knowledge and. ignorance-it is between what a person can state as fact and what actually governs the decision under time. pressure. Readers will discover:. -. Why U. S. highway deaths spiked measurably in the twelve months after 9/11 as millions chose to drive. trips they would have flown. -. How physicians trained in base rates still diagnose toward the rare case they just saw. rather than the. common condition the statistics predict. -. The documented contraction of unsupervised childhood across decades when stranger danger to. children was stable or declining. -. Why drowning kills vastly more swimmers than sharks every year, yet the fear splits the opposite direction. -. The forensic structure each chapter follows: what was known, what was assumed instead, when the bias. took over, and what it cost. Why We Fear the Wrong Things provides a repeatable method for catching the override before it. happens.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Simon Blackwood

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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