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      The Cost of Conviction

      Steven A. Sloman

      A timely and important perspective on how people frame decisions and how relying on sacred values unwittingly leads to social polarization.

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      Casual Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives

      Steven Sloman

      Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome…

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      The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

      Steven Sloman,Philip Fernbach

      The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone and often…

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      The Knowledge Illusion: The myth of individual thought and the power of collective wisdom

      Steven Sloman,Philip Fernbach

      People are a little like bees and society like a beehive: our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind.

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      Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives

      Steven Sloman (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Brown University)

      This book offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms in terms of action and manipulation. Sloman also reviews the role of causality…

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      The Thread of the Infinite: Tales of Industrial Horror

      The wholesale destruction of hope at the hands of twisted industrial landscapes, smoke stacks and gas towers and metal golems that have no souls, no spirits, and can do everything…

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