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The wisest one in the room : how you can benefit from social psychology's five most powerful insights / Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross.

Gilovich, Thomas, (author.). Ross, Lee, (author.).

Summary:

Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you “wise”: wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life. Gilovich and Ross show that to answer any kind of behavioral question, it is essential to understand the details—especially the hidden and subtle details—of the situational forces acting upon us. Understanding these forces is the key to becoming wiser in the way we understand the people and events we encounter, and wiser in the way we deal with the challenges that are sure to come our way—perhaps even the key to becoming “the wisest in the room.”

Record details

ISBN: 9781451677546
ISBN: 1451677545
Physical Description: vii, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st Free Press edition
Publisher: New York, NY : Free Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1 Pillars of Wisdom -- 1 Objectivity Illusion 13 -- 2 Push and Pull of Situations 42 -- 3 Name of the Game 71 -- 4 Primacy of Behavior 101 -- 5 Keyholes, Lenses, and Filters 131 -- Part 2 Wisdom Applied -- 6 Happiest One in the Room 165 -- 7 Why We Don't "Just Get Along" 195 -- 8 A Tough Problem for America 221 -- 9 An Even Tougher Problem for the World 245.