Vulgar error
Subtitle: why everyone (else) gets everything so wrong
By: Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Ellen, 1936-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781596914001
Subjects: Errors.; Thought and thinking.; Practical reason.
Description: A lighthearted survey of the science of mistakes by the authors of Chances Are reveals how the human race is hard-wired to get things wrong in countless ways, citing such examples as successful racy advertisements for inferior products, our inclinations to favor dysfunctional relationship partners, and the socially unacceptable behaviors of leaders.
Table of contents: title: From the logbook of the ship of fools; title: Idols of the marketplace; title: Tinted glasses; title: Off the rails; title: One of us; title: Fresh off the Pleistocene Bus; title: Living right.