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From childhood, each of us develops our own personal set of theories and beliefs about the world in which we live. Given the impossibility of knowing about every event that can ever take place, we use cognitive short cuts to try to predict and make sense of the world around us. One of the fundamental pieces of information we use to predict future events, and make sense of past events, is 'frequency' - how often has such an event happened to us, or how often have we observed a particular event? With such information we will make inferences about the likelihood of its future appearance. We will make judgements, assess risk, or even consumer decisions, on the basis of this information. We also form associations between events that frequently occur together, and even (often incorrectly) attribute causality between one event and the other as a result of their simultaneous appearance. How is it though that we process such information? How does our brain deal with information on frequencies? How does such information influence our behaviour, beliefs, and judgements? Important new findings on this topic have come from research within both social and cognitive psychology, though until now, never brought together in a single volume. This is the first book to bring together two disparate literatures on this topic - drawing on research from both cognitive psychology and social psychology. Including contributions from world leaders in the field, this is a timely, and long overdue volume on this topic.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Etc.
• Subtitle: Frequency Processing and Cognition
• Author: Peter Sedlmeier, Tilmann Betsch
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 332
• EAN: 9780198508632
• ISBN: 0198508638
• ID: 04526945
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 686 g
• Dimensions: 247 × 175 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. August 2002

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