Stuart Sutherland (1) (1927–1998)
Auteur de Irrationality
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Stuart Sutherland, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Stuart Sutherland (1) a été combiné avec N. S. Sutherland.
Œuvres de Stuart Sutherland
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- Autres noms
- SUTHERLAND, Stuart
- Date de naissance
- 1927-03-26
- Date de décès
- 1998-11-08
- Sexe
- male
- Courte biographie
- After reading PPP at Oxford and winning the John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy he worked on shape discrimination in octopuses and other animals with J Z Young in Naples. From a University Lectureship in Oxford he was appointed in 1964 to head the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the infant University of Sussex, where he spent the rest of his academic life. Under its autocratic but always benevolent Chairman, the Lab quickly became one of the most prestigious psychology departments in Britain - or, indeed, anywhere - supplying talent to Cambridge, Glasgow, Princeton and Edinburgh. Stuart's judgment was much sought after by colleagues and feared by the readers of his pungent book reviews. His famous book Breakdown broke new ground in the public airing of private agonies, and helped a number of readers to cope with their own psychological problems. His last book - Irrationality - has some rude things to say about judges, generals and financiers. He was an impossible person to deal with, but all who could survive his insults thought the world of him.
(Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Emeritus Professor at Sussex)
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bull...
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Critiques
Some of the psychology behind Behavioural Economics (and the arrogance of senior professionals who 'know more than laypeople).
The writing was perfectly fine, but I was already familiar with the concepts and information. So I quit reading it.
Although this book is nearly thirty years old, it was a thought-provoking read and definitely made me think, which was why I wanted to read it in the first place. Some of the examples seemed a bit old-fashioned and there was a couple of lines of argument that I thought were a bit weak, but on the whole, very interesting.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 502
- Popularité
- #49,320
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 2
(I'm using this version because Goodreads isn't showing the Audible version that I listened to.)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS -PRINT: © (First Published by Constable and Company 1992) November 1, 1994; 978-0813521503; Rutgers University Press; First Edition; 357 pages; unabridged (Hardcover Info from Amazon.com)
-DIGITAL: © August 7, 2013; Pinter & Martin; 978059333132; 274 pages; unabridged (Digital version info from Amazon.com)
- *AUDIO: © December 17, 2009; Audible Studios; 10 hours, 32 minutes; unabridged (Audio info from Audible version)
-FILM: No
SERIES: No.
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SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
-SELECTED: Don had added this to our Audible library years ago. It didn’t look too enticing, but I figured it would at least be a good one to listen to at nightif I had trouble getting to sleep.
-ABOUT: The author discusses how people often do make decisions, why it’s irrational, and how they should make them. He discusses medical mistakes frequently made by physicians who do not understand how to apply statistics. The book is chalk full of statistics.
-OVERALL IMPRESSION: Well, yes, it was good at putting me to sleep, and it often insisted I put my brain to work to follow the logic being explained, but it actually was quite interesting, and actually quite useful for everyday decision making.
AUTHOR: Stuart Sutherland: From Wikipedia
“(Norman) Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 – 8 November 1998) was a British psychologist and writer.[2][3]
Education
Sutherland was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, before going to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology. He stayed at University of Oxford for his PhD[4] which was awarded in 1957 for research supervised by John Zachary Young.[citation needed]
Career and research
Sutherland held a lecturing post at Oxford from 1960, and was elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in March 1963,[5] before moving the following year to the recently opened University of Sussex as the founding Professor and head of its Laboratory of Experimental Psychology; with the young colleagues he appointed, he rapidly built an international reputation for Sussex in this field.
Among psychologists, Sutherland is best known for his theoretical and empirical work in comparative psychology, particularly in relation to visual pattern recognition and discrimination learning. In the 1950s and 1960s he carried out numerous experiments on rats but also on other species such as octopus; the two-factor theory of discrimination learning that he developed with Nicholas Mackintosh was an important step in the rehabilitation of a cognitive approach to animal learning after the dominance of strict behaviourism in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also interested in human perception and cognition, and in 1992 he published Irrationality: The enemy within,[6] a lay reader's guide to the psychology of cognitive biases and common failures of human judgement.
Among a wider public, Sutherland is most famous for his 1976 autobiography Breakdown, detailing his struggles with manic depression. A second edition of Breakdown was published in 1995. Stuart Sutherland died from a heart attack in November 1998.”
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GENRE: Non-fiction; Psychology
LOCATIONS: N/A
TIME FRAME: Contemporary (first edition written in 1992)
SUBJECTS: Economics; Values; Math; Probability Theory; Statistics; Decision Making; Medicine; Education; Business; Management; Psychology
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SAMPLE QUOTATION: Excerpt From “Introduction”
"Taken all in all, rationality has had a good press. Hamlet declared, 'What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!' Thomas Husley, a fervent exponent of rationality, went much further: 'If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock, and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.' Whether or not rationality is as desirable a gift as Huxley believed, it is certain that people exhibit it only sporadically, if at all. Consider, for example, how you would answer the following questions.
Which is more likely -- that a mother with blue eyes has a daughter with blue eyes or that a daughter with blue eyes has a mother with blue eyes? Are there more words beginning with the letter 'k' than with 'k' as a third letter? Is an interview a useful selection procedure? Smoking increases the risk of lung cancer by a factor of ten and of fatal heart disease by a factor of two: do more smokers die of lung cancer than of heart disease? Are you a better than average driver? Could you be persuaded to give potentially lethal shocks to someone as part of a psychological experiment? Do more people die of strokes than of accidents? Which is more dangerous, cycling or riding the Big Wheel? Consider two maternity hospitals, one averaging forty-five births a day, the other fifteen: in which hospital is it more likely that on any given day 60 per cent of births will be boys? Is it always beneficial to reward people for performing a task well?
Unless you have been put on your guard by the title of this book, some of your answers to these simple questions are likely to be irrational, as indeed were some of mine when I first encountered them. Moreover, if you answered all of them, you were certainly irrational, since some contain insufficient information to warrant an answer: the inability to suspend judgement is one of the most prevalent aspects of irrationality."
RATING: 3 stars.
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