Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Are the Chances?Condition: NewEAN: 9780231198684ISBN: 9780231198684Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/03/2021Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Barbara BlatchleyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Why We Believe in LuckISBN-10: 023119868XDescription: Winner, 2023 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association Division 1 in General PsychologyMost of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice—or can our beliefs help change our luck?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—who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: What Are the Chances?
Title: What Are the Chances?
EAN: 9780231198684
ISBN: 9780231198684
Release Date: 08/03/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: Why We Believe in Luck
ISBN-10: 023119868X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: What Are the Chances? : Why We Believe in Luck
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Topic: Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Probability & Statistics / General, General, Neuropsychology
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Mathematics, Science, Psychology
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Barbara Blatchley
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
