How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Ranked #42 in Critical Thinking, Ranked #85 in Decision Making — see more rankings.
When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs,... more
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Jonah Lehrer A really smart book and the reason I put it on there is that it really invented the genre of science non-fiction. (Source)
Nicholas Epley This is a book about intuitive human judgment and how the way we think about the world can be distorted and misdirected by forces within our own mind, like our tendency to think well of ourselves, by cognitive forces, such as the ease with which information comes to mind, and by environmental forces, like asymmetries in feedback. (Source)
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- #90 in Reasoning
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