01361nam a22002417a 4500 20251118113213.0 251118b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780091932633 Gifted Sudhakar, 7045818418 English 153 HAL/ER Hallinan, Joseph T ERRORNOMICS : Why We Make Mistakes and What We Can Do To Avoid Them 1 UK Ebury Press 2009 280 How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75% of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs? Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ... but at least we're predictably wrong. From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients), Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Joseph T. Hallinan explains the everyday mistakes that shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening. Philosophy & psychology  Psychology  Conscious mental processes and intelligence LEN ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN GEN 2025-11-13 Gifted 399.00 2 2 153 HAL/ER E1102193 2026-02-21 12:21:55 2026-02-04 2025-11-13 LEN 196955 196955