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You Are Now Less Dumb
You Are Now Less Dumb
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Title: You Are Now Less Dumb
Author: David Mcraney
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781592408054
Condition: Good
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Description:
David McRaney's first book, You Are Not So Smart , evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney's insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon.
Like You Are Not So Smart , You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we're not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyzes of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including:
- The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us)
- Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don't enjoy just to make the time or money already invested ?worth it)
- Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality)
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