Beyond Feelings

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CHAPTER 8: THE BASIC PROBLEM: “MINE IS BETTER”
1. Edwin Arthur Burtt, Right Thinking: A Study of Its Principles and Methods, 3d ed. (New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1946), p. 63.
2. Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary (New York: Dover, 1958), p. 66.
3. Cited in Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in
Everyday Life (New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 77.
4. Edmond G. Addeo and Robert E. Burger, EgoSpeak: Why No One Listens to You (Radnor,
Pa.: Chilton, 1973).
5. Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1954), pp. 355–56.
6. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (New York: Press of the Readers Club, 1942), p. 15.
7. “Theologian: U.S. Too Tolerant,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, May 30, 1981, p. 15.
8. “Jailed Rabbi Seeks Kosher Diet,” Binghamton (New York) Press, May 23, 1982, p. 5A.
9. Reported on Good Morning, America, ABC News, November 4, 1982.
10. “Pregnant Teacher Stirs Town,” Binghamton (New York) Press, December 22, 1982, p. 1A.
CHAPTER 9: ERRORS OF PERSPECTIVE
1. H. L. Gee, Five Hundred Tales to Tell Again (New York: Roy Publishers/Epworth Press,
1955), p. 56.
2. David Hackett Fischer, Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (New
York: HarperPerennial, 1970), pp. 9–10.
3. Solomon Asch, cited in Carole Wade and Carol Tavris, Psychology, 2d ed. (New York:
HarperCollins, 1990), p. 669.
4. Nat Hentoff, Speaking Freely: A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
5. Reported on Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Network, April 3, 2006.
6. Reported in George Will, Suddenly (New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 405.
7. Thomas A. Harris, I’m OK—You’re OK: A Practical Guide to Transactional Analysis (New
York: Harper & Row, 1969), pp. 22–23.
8. “Anna Freud, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 86,” New York Times, October 10, 1982, p. 46.
9. Rona and Laurence Cherry, “The Horney Heresy,” New York Times Magazine, August 26,
1973, p. 12ff.
10. “Liberation Lawn,” New York Times, May 23, 1982, sec. 4, p. 11.
11. This approach was used in the 1982 California primary and reported in “Game Show
Prizes Entice CA Voters,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, June 4, 1982, p. 1.
12. This idea was tested by an education researcher, Eileen Bayer. It proved successful.
Fred M. Hechinger, “Grandpa Goes to Kindergarten,” New York Times, October 29, 1972,
sec. 4, p. 11.
13. The Reagan administration discussed this plan and indicated it was not opposed to it.
“U.S. Considering National ID Cards,” (Oneonta, New York) Star, May 21, 1982, p. 1.
14. Harry Atkins, “Football, Hockey Are X-Rated,” Binghamton (New York) Press, December
19, 1982, p. 60.
CHAPTER 10: ERRORS OF PROCEDURE
1. Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Reason in Everyday Life
(New York: Free Press, 1991).
2. Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000),
pp. 24, 44.
3. John McWhorter, Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (New York: Free Press, 2000).