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Book

You are now less dumb : how to conquer mob mentality, how to buy happiness, and all the other ways to outsmart yourself

Call Number

  • 153.43 M4789 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, New York : Gotham Books, [2013]

Physical Description

vii, 309 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

The popular blogger and author of the best-selling "You Are Not So Smart" shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, analyzing 15 additional ways people routinely fool themselves in areas ranging from attraction and time wasted to best intentions and the true price of happiness.

Contents

  • Self-delusion
  • Narrative bias
  • The common belief fallacy
  • The Benjamin Franklin effect
  • The post hoc fallacy
  • The halo effect
  • Ego depletion
  • The misattribution of arousal
  • The illusion of external agency
  • The backfire effect
  • Pluralistic ignorance
  • The no true Scotsman fallacy
  • The illusion of asymmetric insight
  • Enclothed cognition
  • Deindividuation - -The sunk cost fallacy
  • The overjustification effect
  • The self-enhancement bias.

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