Frasi di Robyn Mason Dawes

Robyn Mason Dawes è stato uno psicologo e saggista statunitense.

Gli ambiti di ricerca a cui si è interessato includono la cooperazione, l'irrazionalità e i regolamenti relativi all'AIDS negli Stati Uniti. È stato il coautore di un libro di testo sulla psicologia matematica.

Dawes ha acquisito un B.A. in filosofia all'Università Harvard nel 1958 ed un master in psicologia clinica all'Università del Michigan nel 1960. Nel 1963 ha acquisito, sempre nell'Università del Michigan, il dottorato in psicologia matematica. Successivamente ha lavotato presso l'Università dell'Oregon, dove è stato capo dipartimento per cinque anni, e nell'Oregon Research Institute.

Nel 1985, Dawes si unì al dipartimento di Social and Decision Sciences alla Carnegie Mellon University, dove ricoprì il ruolo di capo dipartimento per sei anni.

Nel 1990 è stato premiato con il William James Award dall'American Psychological Association per il libro Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, di cui è coautore insieme a Reid Hastie.

È fellow della American Academy of Arts and Sciences e membro del comitato sulla ricerca sull'AIDS del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche statunitense. Nel 2006 Dawes è stato eletto Fellow dell American Statistical Association.

Attualmente è docente di psicologia alla Charles J. Queenan, Jr. University.

È stato membro del comitato etico dell'American Psychological Association Wikipedia  

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Robyn Mason Dawes: Frasi in inglese

“The world as postulated by the recovered-memory theorists is not an impossible one—just an extraordinarily unlikely one.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 9, “Sexual Abuse Hysteria” (p. 176)

“I know better than to say “that’s absurd” to someone trained in Freudian analysis, because such a therapist will simply interpret such an assertion as confirmation of whatever is proposed.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 9, “Sexual Abuse Hysteria” (p. 158)

“Many people operate as if there are two separate and equal sources of information—the self and others, where the number of others is irrelevant. The result is a “truly” false-consensus effect in the context of knowing one’s own plus a certain number of others’ responses.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 8, “Connecting Ourselves with Others, Without Recourse to a Good Story” (p. 148)

“Unfortunately, good stories are so compelling to us when we take the role of psychologist or social analyst that we do not realize that at best they constitute just a starting point for analysis.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 7, “Good Stories” (p. 138)

“Prior to studies of unusually intelligent people that showed them to be generally much better adapted and happier than others, the popular belief in the United States was that exceptional intelligence was often associated with exceptional ability to “drive yourself nuts.””

Hence, people believed that genius and lunacy were intimately connected. Perhaps, nearly all of us “drive ourselves a little nuts” by virtue of creating stories that lead us to the illusion that we understand history, other people, causality, and life—when we don’t.
Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 7, “Good Stories” (p. 125)

“The limitation of the story to a single sequence and the essentially ad hoc nature of causal attributions call into question the whole procedure of using stories as evidence, and of thinking that they establish causality or patterns of reasons.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 7, “Good Stories” (p. 113)

“Believing you’re good at something just because you do it—without any information that you’re doing it well—is indeed irrational.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 6, “Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment” (p. 106)

“True scientific demonstration involves convincing an observer who is outside the process, particularly one not deeply and emotionally enmeshed in it.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 6, “Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment” (p. 99)

“Prediction is not the same thing as understanding, but in the absence of prediction, we can certainly doubt understanding.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 6, “Three Specific Irrationalities of Probabilistic Judgment” (p. 97)

“At the very least, irrationality per se can be challenged. In contrast, acting irrational because we believe that other people are so irrational that their irrationality cannot be challenged leads to no challenge at all.”

Origine: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 2, “Irrationality Has Consequences” (p. 24)

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