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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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"You are not so smart" was published by Gotham Books/Penguin Group in 2011 - New York, it has 302 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: You are not so smart
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 302
  • Publisher: Gotham Books/Penguin Group
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  • Publish Location: New York

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  • Pagination: xvi, 302 p. ;

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"You are not so smart" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Introduction: You
  • 2- Priming
  • 3- Confabulation
  • 4- Confirmation Bias
  • 5- Hindsight Bias
  • 6- The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
  • 7- Procrastination
  • 8- Normalcy Bias
  • 9- Introspection
  • 10- The Availability Heuristic
  • 11- The Bystander Effect
  • 12- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • 13- Apophenia
  • 14- Brand Loyalty
  • 15- The Argument from Authority
  • 16- The Argument from Ignorance
  • 17- The Straw Man Fallacy
  • 18- The Ad Hominem Fallacy
  • 19- The Just-World Fallacy
  • 20- The Public Goods Game
  • 21- The Ultimatum Game
  • 22- Subjective Validation
  • 23- Cult Indoctrination
  • 24- Groupthink
  • 25- Supernormal Releasers
  • 26- The Affect Heuristic
  • 27- Dunbar's Number
  • 28- Selling Out
  • 29- Self-Serving Bias
  • 30- The Spotlight Effect
  • 31- The Third Person Effect
  • 32- Catharsis
  • 33- The Misinformation Effect
  • 34- Conformity
  • 35- Extinction Burst
  • 36- Social Loafing
  • 37- The Illusion of Transparency
  • 38- Learned Helplessness
  • 39- Embodied Cognition
  • 40- The Anchoring Effect
  • 41- Attention
  • 42- Self-Handicapping
  • 43- Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • 44- The Moment
  • 45- Consistency Bias
  • 46- The Representativeness Heuristic
  • 47- Expectation
  • 48- The Illusion of Control
  • 49- The Fundamental Attribution Error.

"You are not so smart" Description:

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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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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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