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 - Couverture souple

McRaney, David

 
9781592407361: 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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ISBN 10 : 1592407366 ISBN 13 : 9781592407361
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. 

Whether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us—but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human.

Growing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, You Are Not So Smart 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 often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter—covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency—is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out.

Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.

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À propos de l?auteur

A two-time winner of the William Randolph Hearst Award, journalist David McRaney writes the blog youarenotsosmart.com. A self-described psychology nerd, he lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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Éditeur
Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1592407366
ISBN 13 
9781592407361
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781851689392: You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook And 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1851689397 ISBN 13 :  9781851689392
Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2012
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