Never saw it coming cultural challenges to envisioning the worst

People-especially Americans-are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cerulo, Karen A. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press c2006.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798520806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's the worst that could happen?
  • The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry
  • Practicing positive asymmetry
  • Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement
  • Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences?
  • Exceptions to the rule
  • Emancipating structures and cognitive styles
  • Can symmetrical vision be achieved?