| Description |
xvi, 302 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302). |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Thought and thinking.
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Thought and thinking. |
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Perception.
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Perception. |
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Truth -- Psychological aspects.
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Truth -- Psychological aspects. |
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Truth. |
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Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
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Defense mechanisms (Psychology) |
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Reason.
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Reason. |
| ISBN |
9781592406593 |
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1592406599 |
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