Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evalua…
Cover -- Homo Prospectus -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Homo Prospectus -- ONE Introduction -- TWO Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience -- THREE Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode -- FOUR Imaginat…
by Seligman, Martin E. P., Baumeister, Roy F., Railton, Peter Albert, Sripada, Chandra
Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evalua…
In this remarkable convergence of research in philosophy, statistics, decision theory, psychology, and neuroscience, Homo Prospectus shows how human prospection fundamentally reshapes our understanding of key cognitive processes, thereby improving individual and social functioni…