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What Are the Chances?
Why We Believe in Luck
Buch von Barbara Blatchley
Sprache: Englisch

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What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people?winning the lottery multiple times, surviving seven brushes with death, finding an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy?as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can?fingers crossed?help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world.
What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people?winning the lottery multiple times, surviving seven brushes with death, finding an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy?as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can?fingers crossed?help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world.
Über den Autor
Barbara Blatchley
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. What Is Luck?
2. A Brief History of Luck
3. Luck and Psychology: On Being a Social Animal
4. Luck and Psychology: Magical Thinking
5. Luck and Your Brain: Part I
6. Luck and Your Brain: Part II
7. How to Get Lucky
8. Fortune¿s Expensive Smile
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Angewandte Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780231198684
ISBN-10: 023119868X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Blatchley, Barbara
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 148 x 223 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Barbara Blatchley
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,424 kg
preigu-id: 119494978
Über den Autor
Barbara Blatchley
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. What Is Luck?
2. A Brief History of Luck
3. Luck and Psychology: On Being a Social Animal
4. Luck and Psychology: Magical Thinking
5. Luck and Your Brain: Part I
6. Luck and Your Brain: Part II
7. How to Get Lucky
8. Fortune¿s Expensive Smile
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Angewandte Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780231198684
ISBN-10: 023119868X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Blatchley, Barbara
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 148 x 223 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Barbara Blatchley
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,424 kg
preigu-id: 119494978
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