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

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302 pages

English language

Published 2011 by Gotham Books/Penguin Group.

ISBN:
978-1-59240-659-3
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OCLC Number:
706017775

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4 stars (1 review)

McRaney reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But sometimes those stories aren't true.

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4 stars

I like this book because it's told me that my memory is infallible, that I've made the right decision at every turn, and I'm a completely rational actor who can calmly ignore mental biases -- not like those poor deluded fools he keeps mentioning in his studies. Must be terrible being one of THOSE people.

Subjects

  • Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
  • Reason
  • Perception
  • Truth
  • Psychological aspects
  • Thought and thinking