A woman planning a dinner party calls a gourmet caterer and learns that "Chateaubriand" can be ordered. To which she responds, "No, thanks. We're going to take care of the wine ourselves." The dead silence at the end of the phone is her first clue that something is amiss. A CEO attempts to put an end to complaints from employees about the demeaning behavior of certain managers by berating the managers before the staff--thus reinforcing the very behavior he's trying to correct.

We often criticize such incidents with remarks like "How dumb!" or "What was he thinking?" But psychologist Madeleine L. Van Hecke argues that much of what we label stupidity can better be explained as blind spots. Just as the blind spot in the driver's side mirror can swallow up a passing car, patterns in the way we think can likewise become blind spots, sifting out information and observations that to other people seem obvious. Drawing on research in creativity, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, child development, education, and philosophy, Dr. Van Hecke shows how our assets as thinkers create the very blind spots that become our worst liabilities. She devotes a chapter to each of ten mental blind spots that afflict even the smartest people: not stopping to think, jumping to conclusions, my-side bias, getting trapped by categories, and much more. At the end of each chapter she offers tactics for overcoming that specific blind spot, so we can become more creative and competent thinkers.

Full of funny, poignant stories about human foibles, Blind Spots offers many insights for improving our social and political lives while giving us fresh slants into the minds of people who are poles apart from ourselves.

作者簡介：瑪德蓮•赫剋Madeleine L. Van Hecke

在美國伊利諾伊州一所學院中任教，同時也是執業心理醫師，經常受邀擔任創意及思考主題的研討講師。近年她結閤專業背景與她多年來遇到的個人與組織思考障礙問題，寫瞭Blind Spots一書，齣版後迅速躋身Amazon網站心理自助類書籍前十名，讓更多人瞭解不自知的盲點的成因並進行改善，受到廣大讀者的喜愛和好評。

譯者簡介：藺秀雲，博士，現為北京師範大學發展心理研究所講師，北京師範大學發展心理研究所傢庭研究與治療中心負責人、資深谘詢師，心理學院本科生教育實習指導教師。主要研究方嚮：傢庭治療，兒童障礙，弱勢群體心理健康。

徐守森，博士，畢業於北京師範大學，現為首都體育學院教育心理教研室副教授。主要研

究方嚮為大學生心理健康素質教育、大學生體育參與的心理動力。