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THE MYTH OF EXPERIENCE
Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, And Ways to Correct Them
A transformative look at experience and the many ways it misleads, deceives and curtails us.
Society venerates experience. Our personal experience is a key component of who we are. We judge others by theirs and are judged by ours. From doctors to teachers to presidents to chefs, in our society, the more experience the better. But while we value and trust experience above all else, we overlook its inherent downfalls.
In The Myth of Experience, Hogarth and Soyer explore why a reliance on experience can ultimately hinder individual and societal decision-making. Drawing on concepts of behavioral science and economics, they highlight how experience can misrepresent the past, limit creativity, restrict freedom and reduce happiness. In doing so, they transform the conventional wisdom behind experience and provide a guide on how to improve our use of it. When organizations and decision-makers develop a healthy criticism towards experience, effective strategies develop and growth can occur.
Told in an engaging narrative with cases from history and everyday life, alongside their own cutting-edge discoveries in behavioral science, Hogarth and Soyer illustrate the flaws of experience as a decision-making tool and the instances where our most trusted ally could really be our enemy, in the workplace and beyond.
Robin Hogarth is one of the founders of the judgment and decision-making research field and is a former Professor of Behavioral Science and Deputy Dean of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Universität Pompeu Fabra and Emeritus Research Professor of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in Barcelona, Spain. He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Emre Soyer is a behavioral scientist and assistant professor of judgment and decision making in the Business Faculty at Turkey's Ozyegin University. Along with professor Robin M. Hogarth (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), he has published a series of experimental and conceptual papers on decisions and experience. His articles have been published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and he has given TEDxOZU and TEDxIstanbul talks. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
In The Myth of Experience, Hogarth and Soyer explore why a reliance on experience can ultimately hinder individual and societal decision-making. Drawing on concepts of behavioral science and economics, they highlight how experience can misrepresent the past, limit creativity, restrict freedom and reduce happiness. In doing so, they transform the conventional wisdom behind experience and provide a guide on how to improve our use of it. When organizations and decision-makers develop a healthy criticism towards experience, effective strategies develop and growth can occur.
Told in an engaging narrative with cases from history and everyday life, alongside their own cutting-edge discoveries in behavioral science, Hogarth and Soyer illustrate the flaws of experience as a decision-making tool and the instances where our most trusted ally could really be our enemy, in the workplace and beyond.
Robin Hogarth is one of the founders of the judgment and decision-making research field and is a former Professor of Behavioral Science and Deputy Dean of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Universität Pompeu Fabra and Emeritus Research Professor of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in Barcelona, Spain. He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Emre Soyer is a behavioral scientist and assistant professor of judgment and decision making in the Business Faculty at Turkey's Ozyegin University. Along with professor Robin M. Hogarth (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), he has published a series of experimental and conceptual papers on decisions and experience. His articles have been published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, and he has given TEDxOZU and TEDxIstanbul talks. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Published 2020-09-01 by Public Affairs |