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Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Kn

📁 Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It

✍ David Lewis 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

Impulse explores what people do despite knowing better, along with snap decisions that occasionally enrich their lives. This eye-opening account looks at two kinds of thinking--one slow and reflective, the other fast but prone to error--and shows how our mental tracks switch from the first to the

Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Kn

📁 Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It

✍ Dr. David Lewis 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Belknap Press 🌐 English

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" has been the limp excuse of many a person whose actions later became cause for regret. Although we see ourselves as rational beings, we are far more likely to act according to impulse than logic. Nor is this always a bad thing, David Lewis suggests. Imp

Impulse : why we do what we do without k

📁 Impulse : why we do what we do without knowing why we do it

✍ Dr. David Lewis 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 🌐 English

"It seemed like a good idea at the time" has been the limp excuse of many a person whose actions later became cause for regret. Although we see ourselves as rational beings, we are far more likely to act according to impulse than logic. Nor is this always a bad thing, David Lewis suggests. Imp

Ever Wonder Why We Do It?

📁 Ever Wonder Why We Do It?

✍ Mike Peyton 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English

Mike Peyton is the nautical world's best known and much loved cartoonist. For years he has made his mark, contributing witty, well executed and poignantly funny cartoons to the yachting and boating press, poking fun at seafarers of all types and capturing in his distinctive cartoon s

📁 Among friends : who we like, why we like them, and what we do about it

✍ Pogrebin, Letty Cottin 📂 Library 📅 1988 🏛 New York : McGraw-Hill 🌐 English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-406) and index

Parents Who Think Too Much: Why We Do It

📁 Parents Who Think Too Much: Why We Do It, How to Stop It

✍ Anne Cassidy 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English

With the baby boom generation came the genre of parenting books that told parents how to teach their kids everything from toilet training to developing self-esteem. Generally the message has been: go easy on your child, but hard on yourself. It is starting to become apparent, especially in the best