Record Details

Catalog Search

Search The Catalog



What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.

Record details

  • ISBN: 030012385X
  • ISBN: 9780300123852
  • Physical Description: xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-301) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Inside George W. Bush's mind : hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia : separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser : ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing : heads I win, tails I win too! -- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.
Subject:
Intelligence tests.
Thought and thinking.