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Redirect: The Surprising New Science Of Psychological Change (2011)

by Timothy D. Wilson(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316051888 (ISBN13: 9780316051880)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: There's some interesting stuff in here, but large swaths of it could have been tightened since there's a lot of repeating. It's a bit like being bludgeoned by a randomized-controlled-trials-are-best-method mallet. The most interesting parts were the analyses of existing social and behavioral interventions, and especially some of the research about effective low-scale interventions. Overall, though, my coworker was right in saying that this is about 100 pages longer than needed.
review 2: I didn't get as much out of this as I thought I would and the cover is actually quite deceiving. Don't get me wrong, this is an absolutely fascinating and thought-provoking read; extensively researched and referenced, but I didn't feel that there were any practical applications... more for the findings and it does nothing to "redirect" your thinking. Wilson mentions the "story-editing" method a lot, but he doesn't actually go into it in any great detail or explain how to use it, he does touch on it briefly in the first chapter, but seems to abandon it for the rest of the book, which is disappointing because I felt that was the most interesting part of his argument. So it starts off well, but from the second chapter onward it spends too much time being a critical analysis of statistics and current issues very much like the book "Freakonomics" than an intelligent treatise on a potentially ground-breaking psychological technique. less

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