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Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst

Title
Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst / Karen A. Cerulo.
Author
Cerulo, Karen A.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Description
ix, 333 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Catastrophical, The
  • Cognition and culture
  • Social psychology
  • Knowledge, Sociology of
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index.
Contents
What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved?
Call Number
JFE 06-12816
ISBN
  • 0226100324 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226100332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006002487
  • 9780226100326
  • 9780226100333
OCLC
63703781
Author
Cerulo, Karen A.
Title
Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst / Karen A. Cerulo.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index.
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9780226100326
9780226100333
Research Call Number
JFE 06-12816
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