What Are the Chances? : : Why We Believe in Luck / / Barbara Blatchley.
Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, g...
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Blatchley, Barbara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut What Are the Chances? : Why We Believe in Luck / Barbara Blatchley. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource : 9 figures and tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. WHAT IS LUCK? -- 2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF LUCK -- 3. LUCK AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 4. LUCK AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 5. LUCK AND YOUR BRAIN: PART I -- 6. LUCK AND YOUR BRAIN: PART II -- 7. HOW TO GET LUCKY -- 8. FORTUNE’S EXPENSIVE SMILE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Most of us, no matter how rational we think we are, have a lucky charm, a good-luck ritual, or some other custom we follow in the hope that it will lead to a good result. Is the idea of luckiness just a way in which we try to impose order on chaos? Do we live in a world of flukes and coincidences, good and bad breaks, with outcomes as random as a roll of the dice—or can our beliefs help change our luck?What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people—who won the lottery multiple times, survived seven brushes with death, or found an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy—as well as the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness, the history of luckiness in different cultures and religions, the surprising benefits of magical thinking, and many other topics. Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected, What Are the Chances? shows why an arguably irrational belief can—fingers crossed—help us as we struggle with an unpredictable world. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Chance Psychological aspects. Fortune Psychological aspects. Serendipity. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739077 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2021 English 9783110754148 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2021 9783110753912 ZDB-23-DPM https://doi.org/10.7312/blat19868 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231552752 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231552752/original |
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