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Title: Intuition: Its Powers and Perils by David G. Myers ISBN: 0-300-09531-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simpy fascinating
Comment: This is a book that will make you think and will challenge many of your perceptions. It's written in a clear, concise and entertaining style; Myers makes certain difficult concepts very understandable by using examples, logic and humor. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent overview of intuition, decision making and risk
Comment: Myers brings together a lot of research into a very readable book about "knowing."
Myers explains to some degree how we know...and why we are likely to be correct. This is well documented although perhaps not as thorough as Sources of Power or Strangers Unto Ourselves by Wilson. Nevertheless there is plenty of meat here.
Then he talks in much greater detail about how and when our intuition is likely to fail us. This is much more enjoyable reading and thorough in scope.
Myers gives a significant amount of attention to ESP, psychic intuition and gambling, all of which are evenly presented and well thought out.
If you have an interest in decision making, intuition, risk, and how we "think" this is a brilliant introduction.
Rating: 2
Summary: Long on data, short on theory
Comment: In Intuition: Its Powers and Perils, author David Myers provides an overview of the unconscious operations of the human mind.
He begins by arguing that we have two parallel systems operating in our day to day lives, the conscious/rational system and the unconscious/intuitive system. The former is slow and deliberate, the latter is fast and sometimes inaccurate. He then details may of the ways in which our intuition proves incorrect in areas like geography, personal memories, individual competence, and foly physics. Myers ends the book with a long chapter about our intuition in medicine, job interviews, risk, and gambling.
Throughout the book, Myers repeats a theme popular since Tversky and Khanneman's papers in the 1970s: the human mind has predictable biases and innaccuracies on a host of logical puzzles and laboratory tests. As such, the book is basically a 249 page review article of the evidence against human rationality. While many of his examples are fascinating, there is no overall theory or mechanism given to account for this irrationality.
To take one example he uses, imagine a ball dropped from a plane. Most people intuitively feel that the ball should fall straight down, rather than along the correct parabolic path to the earth. Myers takes this as evidence of a faulted folk-physics. Unfortunately, despite this fault, people have no problem catching balls falling from great heights. Is it possible that our intuition is in fact robust and accurate within the domains where it is used, and only incorrect in the unusual situations of the laboratory? Myers only casually addresses this, but his evidence on competence developing at certain tasks and jobs indicates that this might be the case.
I would recommend this book to anyone trying to access the primary literature on human rationality and its shortcomings. It is a nice overview. Those attempting to understand how intuition is used by humans in everyday situations, that is, a theory of intuition, will have to keep looking. I recommend Gerd Gigerenzer's book, Adaptive Thinking, as an excellent starting point.
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Title: Strangers to Ourselves : Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson ISBN: 0674009363 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do by Gary Klein ISBN: 0385502885 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J. Sternberg ISBN: 0300090331 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner ISBN: 0262232227 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Heuristics and Biases : The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, Daniel Kahneman ISBN: 0521796792 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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