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        Minding the Weather

        Minding the Weather

        Minding the Weather

        How Expert Forecasters Think

        by Robert R. Hoffman, Daphne S. LaDue, H. Michael Mogil, Paul J. Roebber and J. Gregory Trafton

        ISBN: 9780262548816

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.
        Computational Psychiatry

        Computational Psychiatry

        Computational Psychiatry

        New Perspectives on Mental Illness

        Edited by A. David Redish and Joshua A. Gordon

        ISBN: 9780262546676

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        Psychiatrists and neuroscientists discuss the potential of computational approaches to address problems in psychiatry including diagnosis, treatment, and integration with neurobiology.
        Models of a Man

        Models of a Man

        Models of a Man

        Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon

        Edited by Mie Augier and James G. March

        ISBN: 9780262546492

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.
        The Genius Checklist

        The Genius Checklist

        The Genius Checklist

        Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius

        by Dean Keith Simonton

        ISBN: 9780262537957

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 12, 2019

        What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.
        Psychedelicacies

        Psychedelicacies

        Psychedelicacies

        More Food For Thought From Breaking Convention

        Edited by Nikki Wyrd, David Luke, Aimée Tollan, Cameron Adams and Dave King

        ISBN: 9781907222887

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: November 12, 2019

        Essays from the cutting edge of psychedelic research, from Breaking Convention 2017.
        How History Gets Things Wrong

        How History Gets Things Wrong

        How History Gets Things Wrong

        The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories

        by Alex Rosenberg

        ISBN: 9780262537995

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 13, 2019

        Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.
        Pseudoscience

        Pseudoscience

        Pseudoscience

        The Conspiracy Against Science

        Edited by Allison B. Kaufman and James C. Kaufman

        ISBN: 9780262537049

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 12, 2019

        Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.
        How Attention Works

        How Attention Works

        How Attention Works

        Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction

        by Stefan Van der Stigchel

        Translated by Danny Guinan

        ISBN: 9780262039260

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 12, 2019

        How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.
        The Essential Tversky

        The Essential Tversky

        The Essential Tversky

        by Amos Tversky

        Edited by Eldar Shafir

        Foreword by Michael Lewis

        Afterword by Daniel Kahneman

        ISBN: 9780262535106

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 17, 2018

        Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century.
        Synesthesia

        Synesthesia

        Synesthesia

        by Richard E. Cytowic

        ISBN: 9780262535090

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 9, 2018

        An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia—vividly felt sensory couplings—by a founder of the field.
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