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- Book Title
- Numbers and Nerves
- Publication Name
- Numbers and Nerves : Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
- Title
- Numbers and Nerves
- Subtitle
- Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
- Contributor
- Paul Slovic (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780870717765
- ISBN
- 9780870717765
- Publisher
- Oregon STATE University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Release Date
- 30/10/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 14.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information--a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information presented in the form of numbers, and yet many important social and environmental phenomena, ranging from genocide to global climate change, require quantitative description. The essays and interviews in Numbers and Nerves explore the quandary of our cognitive responses to quantitative information, while also offering compelling strategies for overcoming insensitivity to the meaning of such information. With contributions by journalists, literary critics, psychologists, naturalists, activists, and others, this book represents a unique convergence of psychological research, discourse analysis, and visual and narrative communication. At a time of unprecedented access to information, our society is frequently stymied in its efforts to react to the world's massive problems. Many of these problems are systemic, deeply rooted in seemingly intransigent cultural patterns and lifestyles. In order to sense the significance of these issues and begin to confront them, we must first understand the psychological tendencies that enable and restrict our processing of numerical information. Numbers and Nerves explores a wide range of psychological phenomena and communication strategies--fast and slow thinking, psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, the prominence effect, the asymmetry of trust, contextualized anecdotes, multifaceted mosaics of prose, and experimental digital compositions, among others--and places these in real-world contexts. In the past two decades, cognitive science has increasingly come to understand that we, as a species, think best when we allow numbers and nerves, abstract information and experiential discourse, to work together. This book provides a roadmap to guide that collaboration. It will be invaluable to scholars, educators, professional communicators, and anyone who struggles to grasp the meaning behind the numbers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oregon STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0870717766
ISBN-13
9780870717765
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211380083
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Numbers and Nerves : Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm851.N868 2015
Reviews
"We live in a world of cascading information. Data crash all over us like detached avalanches or unhinged landslides. We have always sought to organize chaos. Otherwise we simply cannot cope. Father and son Paul and Scott Slovic have produced a set of challenging essays and fascinating interviews with artists, activists, and writers. These indicate that we are prone to numb our moral sensitivities and emotional outreach when confronted with too much despair among others..." Tim O'Riordan, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, " Numbers and Nerves is a book worth reading, which well informs the reader of some of our most frustrating psychological limitations to responding adequately to large numerical data. These psychological mechanisms are examined and demonstrated well in Part I. Although Part II and Part III are more tentative, they do actively bring the reader into a conversation around what may very well be the most important questions of our time: Why are we not responding as we should to large numbers which quantify human suffering and environmental collapse? And how, then, might we work around these limitations?" - Anne M. W. Kelly, Scholar Commons
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Media Studies, Social Aspects / General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Lccn
2015-032793
Dewey Decimal
005.7
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Psychology, Social Science
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