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Future-Minded : The Psychology of Agency and Control by Magda Osman (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101137022264

ISBN-139781137022264

eBay Product ID (ePID)176383922

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameFuture-Minded : the Psychology of Agency and Control

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDecision-Making & Problem Solving, General, Time, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Developmental / General

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaEducation, Science, Psychology

AuthorMagda Osman

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2014-017947

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'A wonderfully original and masterly overview of how we think about our influence on the world and about how we sometimes develop delusional beliefs about ourselves as agents in the world. Osman is a pioneer in this fast-developing field and has written a clear and lucid book.' - David Shanks, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK 'An extremely interesting book that conveys some very complex concepts and experiments in a very accessible way. The book is engaging and, unusually for a psychological text, difficult to put down.' - Richard J. Tunney, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal153.8/3

Table Of Content1. Agency and Control: Psychological Tools for Making the Future 2. Agency: Claiming Future Events as Our Own 3. Control: Achieving and Maintaining a Desirable Future 4. Causality and Coincidence: Joining the Past to the Present and the Future 5. Consciousness: Mental Episodes of the Past, Present and Future 6. Illusion of Control and Illusion of Chaos: Mistaking Future Consequences 7. Goals and Values: Ways of Anchoring the Future 8. Understanding Human Behaviour from the Point of View of the Future is the Future of Psychological Research.

SynopsisWhat drives us to make decisions? Future-Minded explores the psychological processes of agency and control. If you've ever wondered why we think of coincidences as matters of fate rather than the result of the laws of probability, this book provides the answer. From memory and reasoning to our experiences of causality and consciousness, it unpicks the mechanisms we use on a daily basis to help us predict, plan for and attempt to control the future. Future-Minded * Features a wealth of real world examples to help you engage with this fast-developing area * Provides clear analysis of psychological experiments and their findings to explain the evidence behind the theory Thought-provoking and highly topical, Future-Minded is fascinating reading for psychology students studying cognition or consciousness, and for anyone interested in understanding how we try to determine the future., What drives us to make decisions? Future-Minded explores the psychological processes of agency and control. If you've ever wondered why we think of coincidences as matters of fate rather than the result of the laws of probability, this book provides the answer. From memory and reasoning to our experiences of causality and consciousness, it unpicks the mechanisms we use on a daily basis to help us predict, plan for and attempt to control the future. Future-Minded - Features a wealth of real world examples to help you engage with this fast-developing area. - Provides clear analysis of psychological experiments and their findings to explain the evidence behind the theory. Thought-provoking and highly topical, Future-Minded is fascinating reading for psychology students studying cognition or consciousness, and for anyone interested in understanding how we try to determine the future., Focusing on processes including decision-making and memory, this book provides fascinating insight into phenomena such as coincidences and the illusion of control to consider how agency and control help us to think about the future. It is essential reading for students of conceptual and historical issues, consciousness and decision-making.

LC Classification NumberBF1-990