TY - BOOK ID - 30725812 TI - The secret life of decisions : how unconscious bias subverts your judgement AU - Thuraisingham, Meena. AU - Lehmacher, Wolfgang. PY - 2016 SN - 131523713X 1283859831 1409453286 9781409453284 9781472408167 1472408160 1138469912 1409453278 9781283859837 9781409453277 9781315237138 9781351882125 9781138469914 1351882139 PB - London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Decision making. KW - Discrimination KW - Judgment. KW - Leadership. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Judgement KW - Bias KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Decision making KW - Ability KW - Command of troops KW - Followership KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Wisdom KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Minorities KW - Toleration KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Judgment KW - Leadership KW - Psychological aspects KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30725812 AB - The Secret Life of Decisions exposes the unchallenged myths and distortions that impact our reasoning ability, raising our awareness of the many traps we can fall into. The authors have drawn from decades of work with leaders showing that even the most talented leaders and teams can end up making sub-optimal decisions. This is rarely because they had poor critical thinking faculties but rather because they did not pay enough attention to the often invisible traps hardwired into our thinking processes, letting through only information that conforms with our current beliefs, mental models and ex ER -