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, David.

Book

New York : Gotham Books, ©2011.

xvi, 302 pages ; 20 cm.

Thought and thinking.

Perception.

Truth -- Psychological aspects.

Defense mechanisms (Psychology)

Reason.

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.

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