Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst

Using Interviews, Surveys, Artistic And Fictional Accounts Media Reports, Historical Data, And Official Records, 'never Saw It Coming' Illuminates One Of The Most Common, Yet Least Studied, Of Human Traits - A Blatant Disregard For Worst-case Scenarios. What's The Worst That Could Happen? -- The Breadth And Scope Of Positive Asymmetry -- Practicing Positive Asymmetry -- Positive Asymmetry And The Subjective Side Of Scientific Measurement -- Being Labeled The Worst : Real In Its Consequences? -- Exceptions To The Rule -- Emancipating Structures And Cognitive Styles -- Can Symmetrical Vision Be Achieved? Karen A. Cerulo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 279-314) And Index.