Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think - Hardcover
by Eyal Winter
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Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610394901ISBN-10:1610394909UPC:9781610394901Book Category:Business & Economics, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Decision Making & Problem Solving, Emotions, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC5SG6SPJZ
Feeling Smart: Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think
Which is smarter -- your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is it always good advice? In this surprising book, Eyal Winter asks a simple question: why do we have emotions? If they lead to such bad decisions, why hasn't evolution long since made emotions irrelevant? The answer is that, even though they may not behave in a purely...
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610394901ISBN-10:1610394909UPC:9781610394901Book Category:Business & Economics, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Decision Making & Problem Solving, Emotions, Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSize:9.40 x 6.10 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC5SG6SPJZ
Eyal Winter is professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world's leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as chairman of the economics department at Hebrew University and was the 2011 recipient of the Humboldt Prize, awarded by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany....
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