Book

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

Call Number

  • 153.4 M4789.1 (CEN)

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Edition

First trade paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Avery, 2012.

Physical Description

xvi, 303 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

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.

Contents

  • Introduction: You
  • Priming
  • Confabulation
  • Confirmation Bias
  • Hindsight Bias
  • The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
  • Procrastination
  • Normalcy Bias
  • Introspection
  • The Availability Heuristic
  • The Bystander Effect
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • Apophenia
  • Brand Loyalty
  • The Argument from Authority
  • The Argument from Ignorance
  • The Straw Man Fallacy
  • The Ad Hominem Fallacy
  • The Just-World Fallacy
  • The Public Goods Game
  • The Ultimatum Game
  • Subjective Validation
  • Cult Indoctrination
  • Groupthink
  • Supernormal Releasers
  • The Affect Heuristic
  • Dunbar's Number
  • Selling Out
  • Self-Serving Bias
  • The Spotlight Effect
  • The Third Person Effect
  • Catharsis
  • The Misinformation Effect
  • Conformity
  • Extinction Burst
  • Social Loafing
  • The Illusion of Transparency
  • Learned Helplessness
  • Embodied Cognition
  • The Anchoring Effect
  • Attention
  • Self-Handicapping
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • The Moment
  • Consistency Bias
  • The Representativeness Heuristic
  • Expectation
  • The Illusion of Control
  • The Fundamental Attribution Error.

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