The Wisest One in the Room
Thomas Gilovich
Free Press
Renowned psychologists describe the most useful insights from social psychology that can help make you &#8220;wise&#8221;: wise about why people behave the way they do, and wise about how to use that knowledge in understanding and influencing the people in your life.<BR>When faced with a challenge, we often turn to those we trust for words of wisdom. Friends, relatives, and colleagues: someone with the best advice about how to boost sales, the most useful insights into raising children, or the sharpest take on an ongoing conflict. In <i>The Wisest One in the Room</i>, renowned social psychologists Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross ask: Why? What do these people know? What are the foundations of their wisdom? And, as professors and researchers who specialize in the study of human behavior, they wonder: What general principles of human psychology are they drawing on to reach these conclusions?<BR> <BR>They begin by noting that wisdom, unlike intelligence, demands some insight into...