Steve Casner
Autore di Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds
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Careful : a user's guide to our injury-prone minds di Steve Casner
For a book about the psychology of accidents and disasters, Casner is much more interested in shaming people for not being careful enough than he is in investigating what it is about human psychology that makes it so. The first seven chapters or so, when he talks in generalities, are all right (although his assertion that there is literally nothing left to do structurally about making the world a safer place seems short-sighted to me), but when he gets into specifics it becomes downright nasty.
I was sold on this book when I saw the blurb by Deborah Hersman, the former chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. Steve Casner, a safety psychologist, expertly illustrates how our brains are wired to accept risky items as “safe” and vice versa, how we put ourselves at risk in the first place, and how we can develop strategies to counteract what Dean Burnett’s book might call our idiot brains. Casner provides ample context for his explanations, citing a couple of books I’d read previously and telling stories from his own life as well—not even a safety psychologist is immune to the traps our brains set for ourselves. Recommended for those who’ve read and enjoyed Why We Make Mistakes (Hallinan), The Design of Everyday Things (Norman), and The Idiot Brain (Dean Burnett). And if you haven’t read those ones, read them too! The field of safety and error is a fascinating one, and Careful makes a great addition to the literature.… (altro)
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