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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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An edition of You are not so smart (2011)

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

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (10 ratings) ·
  • 62 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

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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Gotham Books/Penguin Group
Language
English
Pages
302

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Subjects

Defense mechanisms (Psychology), Reason, Perception, Truth, Psychological aspects, Thought and thinking, Delusions, Human behavior

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You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
2023, Oneworld Publications
in English
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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
May 29, 2013, Li Zi Wen Hua
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You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
2012, Oneworld Publications
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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
2012, Penguin Publishing Group
in English
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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
Dec 05, 2011, Gildan Media
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-302).

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Library of Congress
BF441 .M427 2011

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Pagination
xvi, 302 p. ;
Number of pages
302

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OL25378534M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1592406599
ISBN 13
9781592406593
LCCN
2012406122
OCLC/WorldCat
706017775

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Work Description

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name.

Whether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us—but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human.

Growing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, You Are Not So Smart 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 often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter—covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency—is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out.

Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.

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