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Future-Minded Magda Osman

Future-Minded By Magda Osman

Future-Minded by Magda Osman

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Summary

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.

Future-Minded Summary

Future-Minded: The Psychology of Agency and Control by Magda Osman

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.

Future-Minded 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

About Magda Osman

Magda Osman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests include causal reasoning, problem-solving, learning and vision, and she is currently Associate Editor for Experimental Psychology, and consults on several national and international research councils.

Table of Contents

1. 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.

Additional information

GOR007781087
9781137022264
1137022264
Future-Minded: The Psychology of Agency and Control by Magda Osman
Magda Osman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2014-03-11
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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