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The Horse That Won't Go Away
First Edition| ©2015 Thomas Heinzen; Scott Lilienfeld; Susan Nolan
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"What would you do if you encountered evidence that contradicted one of your deeply held beliefs? You'd change your mind, of course, right? Wrong. What psychological science has revealed-lucidly and poignantly demonstrated in this marvelous book on how thinking goes wrong-is that we are all deeply flawed and biased reasoners, bending evidence to fit our beliefs and preconceptions. By retelling the famous story of Clever Hans, and connecting it to major myths of our time, The Horse That Won't Go Away is destined to become a classic in scientific literature and should be assigned to every course in critical thinking, along with every politician in Washington."
-Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things
-Thomas D. Gilovich, Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, and author of How We Know What Isn't So
-Terence Hines, Professor of Psychology, Pace University, and author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
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Can a horse really do arithmetic? For a time a great many people thought so, enthralled by the exploits of Clever Hans, a horse that could seemingly answer any question about mathematics, language, and music with stomps of his hoof. Even as celebrated scientists endeavored to discover Hans’s secret, people were perfectly comfortable believing something no rational mind should have accepted. How is that possible?
In The Horse That Won’t Go Away, Tom Heinzen, Scott Lilienfeld, and Susan Nolan explore the confounding story of Clever Hans and how we continue to be deceived by beliefs for which there is no supporting logic or evidence. From Clever Hans, to the unsupported claims that facilitated communication could allow persons with autism to communicate, to the exaggerated fear of many parents that their child may be kidnapped (the odds of such an event are astronomical), the authors show just how important it is to rely on the scientific method as we navigate our way through everyday life.The Horse That Won’t Go Away is available as a separate volume or packaged with any Worth psychology textbook. For more information,contact your local Worth representative
"What would you do if you encountered evidence that contradicted one of your deeply held beliefs? You'd change your mind, of course, right? Wrong. What psychological science has revealed-lucidly and poignantly demonstrated in this marvelous book on how thinking goes wrong-is that we are all deeply flawed and biased reasoners, bending evidence to fit our beliefs and preconceptions. By retelling the famous story of Clever Hans, and connecting it to major myths of our time, The Horse That Won't Go Away is destined to become a classic in scientific literature and should be assigned to every course in critical thinking, along with every politician in Washington."
-Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things
-Thomas D. Gilovich, Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, and author of How We Know What Isn't So
-Terence Hines, Professor of Psychology, Pace University, and author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
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Thomas Heinzen; Scott Lilienfeld; Susan Nolan
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Chapter 1Clever Hans: The Horse That Wont Go AwayChapter 2
Clever Hands: The Facilitated Communication StoryChapter 3
The Clever Hans Effect in Everyday Life

The Horse That Won't Go Away
First Edition| 2015
Thomas Heinzen; Scott Lilienfeld; Susan Nolan
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Thomas Heinzen

Scott Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld is Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Georgia. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in psychology (clinical) from the University of Minnesota. Lilienfeld is Associate Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, and past President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. He has published over 300 articles, chapters, and books on personality and dissociative disorders, psychiatric classification, pseudoscience in psychology, and evidence-based practices in clinical psychology. A Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a columnist for Scientific American Mind, Lilienfeld was a recipient of the David Shakow Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology and the James McKeen Cattell Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Applied Psychological Science.

Susan A. Nolan
Susan A. Nolan is Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Susan researches the interpersonal consequences of mental illness and the role of gender in science careers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is the 2021 President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). She is a Fellow of the EPA, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association for Psychological Science. She holds an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Susan is fascinated by the applications of psychology to the “real world,” both locally and globally. She served as a representative from the APA to the United Nations for five years, and was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she and her husband have a home. She loves to travel. Susan uses the examples she encounters through these experiences in the classroom, in this textbook, and in the statistics textbooks that she co-authors. They also provide ideas for the Psychology Today blog that she co-authors on psychology research related to misinformation.

The Horse That Won't Go Away
First Edition| 2015
Thomas Heinzen; Scott Lilienfeld; Susan Nolan
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