You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
Categories: Science & Math
Journalist David McRaney presents short chapters on the many ways people fool themselves. Each chapter takes a common misconception, explains the truth using research from psychology, and describes the bias behind it, such as confirmation bias, hindsight bias, the sunk cost fallacy and the illusion of control. With humor, McRaney shows that we are far less rational and self-aware than we believe.
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