The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray

by Steven A. Sloman

A timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.

When you are faced with a decision, do you consider the best outcome, or do you consider your deepest values about which actions are appropriate? The Cost of Conviction contrasts these two primary strategies for making decisions: consequentialism, the former, or prioritizing one's sacred values,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262049821
• ISBN13: 9780262049825
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages