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

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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Main Author: McRaney, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Gotham Books/Penguin Group, Ã2011.
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520 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Thought and thinking. 
650 0 |a Perception. 
650 0 |a Truth  |x Psychological aspects. 
650 0 |a Defense mechanisms (Psychology) 
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