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What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.

by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Intelligence tests.

Thought and thinking.

9780300123852 (hbk. : alk. paper) :

030012385X (hbk. : alk. paper)

xv, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Inside George W. Bush's mind: hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia: separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser: ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing: heads I win, tails I win too! -- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser: thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.

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