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The biases of the autonomous brain: characteristics of the short-leash mind that sometimes cause us grief. The dangers of positive thinking: TASS can't "Think of the opposite" ; Now you choose it -- Now you don't: framing effects undermine the notion of human rationality ; Can evolutionary psychology rescue the ideal of human rationality? ; The fundamental computational biases of the autonomous brain ; The evolutionary adaptiveness of the fundamental computational biases ; Evolutionary reinterpretations of responses on heuristics and biases tasks ; The fundamental computational biases and the demands for decontextualization in modern society ; The TASS traps of the modern world -- How evolutionary psychology goes wrong. Modern society as a sodium vapor lamp ; Throwing out the vehicle with the bathwater ; What follows from the fact that Mother Nature isn't nice -- Dysrationalia: Why so many smart people do so many dumb things. Cognitive capacities, thinking dispositions, and levels of analysis ; TASS override and levels of processing ; The great rationality debate: the Panglossian, Apologist, and Meliorist positions contrasted ; Dysrationalia: dissolving the "Smart but acting dumb" paradox ; Would you rather get what you want slowly or get what you don't want much faster? ; Jack and his Jewish problem ; The Panglossian's lament: "If human cognition is so flawed, how come we got to the moon?"
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