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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
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c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798520806719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?
