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“elliot aronson”

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  • Age of Propaganda

    The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion

    by Elliot Aronson, Anthony Pratkanis ...
    Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundbites and manipulative messages.Drawing on the history of propaganda as well as on contemporary ... Read more

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  • Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) Third Edition

    Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

    by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson ...
    A NEW EDITION UPDATED IN 2020 • Why is it so hard to say "I made a mistake" — and really believe it?When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the powerful cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so, unconsciously, we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right—a ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Cooperation in the Classroom: The Jigsaw Method

    by Elliot Aronson, Shelly Patnoe ...
    The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique with a three-decade track record of successfully reducing racial conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. Not only does it open the door to warmer, closer friendships within and across ethnic boundaries, it has also proved effective at raising the self-esteem of students while improving their performance and increasing their ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Not by Chance Alone

    My Life as a Social Psychologist

    by Elliot Aronson ...
    How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honors -- for distinguished research, teaching, and writing -- Elliot ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nobody Left to Hate

    Teaching Compassion After Columbine

    by Elliot Aronson ...
    "Aronson brings to bear the power of social psychology to help us understand why a negative school environment can push vulnerable kids over the edge." —James Garbarino, PhD, author of Lost BoysOn April 20, 1999, the halls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, reverberated with the sound of gunshots as two students, highly armed and consumed with rage, killed thirteen students and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

    by Dan Ariely ...
    “A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book offers especially keen insights into the ways in which we cut corners while still thinking of ourselves as moral people.” — TimeDan Ariely, behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, returns with a thought-provoking work that challenges our ... Read more

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  • The Bed of Procrustes

    Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Series Book 4 - Incerto
    The author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations—now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover.The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by ... Read more

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  • The Drunkard's Walk

    How Randomness Rules Our Lives

    by Leonard Mlodinow ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire.“Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists.... The result is a readable crash course in ... Read more

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  • The Energy of Slaves

    Oil and the New Servitude

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    "A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels" from the author of Tar Sands ( Quill & Quire).Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now ... Read more

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  • Merchants of Doubt

    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Read more

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  • Who's in Charge?

    Free Will and the Science of the Brain

    by Michael S. Gazzaniga ...
    "Gazzaniga is a giant in cognitive neuroscience . . . [He] advances a fascinating argument that both limits and contextualizes brain research." —Forbes.comThe author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the "father of cognitive neuroscience." In his remarkable book, Who's in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly ... Read more

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  • How We Know What Isn't So

    by Thomas Gilovich ...
    Series series A Psychological Study on Logic
    Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life.When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating ... Read more

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