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Never saw it coming [electronic resource] : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst / Karen A. Cerulo.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 333 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226100296 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226100294 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Never saw it coming.DDC classification:
  • 302/.12 22
LOC classification:
  • BD375 .C47 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved?
Summary: People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 316.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index.

What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved?

People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this.

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