Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric

by Jamie Watson

Over the past few decades, psychologists have discovered that human reasoning is defective in surprising ways. We are beset by numerous biases and heuristics, which lead us to reason poorly about things that matter to us. And while there are illuminating evolutionary explanations for how these biases and heuristics may have benefited our species in its phylogeny, psychologists are unanimous that these cognitive dispositions largely corrupt rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498516424
• ISBN13: 9781498516426
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"