Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic 
Judgment under Uncertainty [EPUB ebook] 
Heuristics and Biases

First published in 1982. This book offers virtually everything that is publicly known about sleep-talking, with the greatest amount and most important of this information coming from the author’s own …

Following the attacks of September 11th 2001, one of the resounding questions asked was ‘What would make anyone do such a thing?’ The psychological mentality of the suicidal terrorist left a gaping h …

This book describes the advances and insights made by social scientists from around the world into the understanding and resolution of social dilemmas. Each chapter discusses its own research finding …

The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly incongruous theoretical paradigms. The first of these, inspired by formal logic and the digital computer, sees reason …

What is ‘humpty-dumptying’? Do ‘arguments from analogy’ ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using ‘weasel words’? What’s the difference between a ‘red herring’ and a ‘straw man’? This superb …

Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of our bodies. Many thinkers believe that an evolutionary approach wi …

This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.Sandra Gosso …

In this second volume on the evolution of the nervous system and behavior, the discussion turns from conclusions to method, from a desciption of what happened in history to the means of deciidng what …

This book overviews auditory development in nonhuman species and proposes a common time frame for human and nonhuman auditory development. It attempts to explain the mechanisms accounting for age-rel …

Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indee …