EAN: 9780231198684

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? - WHY WE BELIEVE IN LUCK ...

What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the
idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of
circumstances  examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of
control. She tells the stories of lucky and unlucky people?winning the lottery multiple times 
surviving seven brushes with death  finding an apparently cursed Neanderthal mummy?as well as
the accidental discoveries that fundamentally changed what we know about the brain. Blatchley
considers our frequent misunderstanding of randomness  the history of luckiness in different
cultures and religions  the surprising benefits of magical thinking  and many other topics.
Offering a new view of how the brain handles the unexpected  What Are the Chances? shows why an
arguably irrational belief can?fingers crossed?help us as we struggle with an unpredictable
world.

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