What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.
| Author/creator | Stanovich, Keith E., 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009. |
| Description | xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-301) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008037325 |
| ISBN | 9780300123852 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 030012385X (hardcover : alk. paper) |