Contents

Title Page

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Dedication

Introduction

Part I: Thinking About Thought

1. Everything’s an Inference

2. The Power of the Situation

3. The Rational Unconscious

Part II: The Formerly Dismal Science

4. Should You Think Like an Economist?

5. Spilt Milk and Free Lunch

6. Foiling Foibles

Part III: Coding, Counting, Correlation, and Causality

7. Odds and Ns

8. Linked Up

Part IV: Experiments

9. Ignore the HiPPO

10. Experiments Natural and Experiments Proper

11. Eekonomics

12. Don’t Ask, Can’t Tell

Part V: Thinking, Straight and Curved

13. Logic

14. Dialectical Reasoning

Part VI: Knowing the World

15. KISS and Tell

16. Keeping It Real

Conclusion: The Tools of the Lay Scientist

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

A Note About the Author

Also by Richard E. Nisbett

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