You are not so smart
Subtitle: why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself
By: David McRaney
Publisher: Gotham Books/Penguin Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781592406593
Subjects: Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Reason; Perception; Truth; Psychological aspects; Thought and thinking
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-302).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: You; title: Priming; title: Confabulation; title: Confirmation Bias; title: Hindsight Bias; title: The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy; title: Procrastination; title: Normalcy Bias; title: Introspection; title: The Availability Heuristic; title: The Bystander Effect; title: The Dunning-Kruger Effect; title: Apophenia; title: Brand Loyalty; title: The Argument from Authority; title: The Argument from Ignorance; title: The Straw Man Fallacy; title: The Ad Hominem Fallacy; title: The Just-World Fallacy; title: The Public Goods Game; title: The Ultimatum Game; title: Subjective Validation; title: Cult Indoctrination; title: Groupthink; title: Supernormal Releasers; title: The Affect Heuristic; title: Dunbar's Number; title: Selling Out; title: Self-Serving Bias; title: The Spotlight Effect; title: The Third Person Effect; title: Catharsis; title: The Misinformation Effect; title: Conformity; title: Extinction Burst; title: Social Loafing; title: The Illusion of Transparency; title: Learned Helplessness; title: Embodied Cognition; title: The Anchoring Effect; title: Attention; title: Self-Handicapping; title: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies; title: The Moment; title: Consistency Bias; title: The Representativeness Heuristic; title: Expectation; title: The Illusion of Control; title: The Fundamental Attribution Error.