You are now less dumb : how to conquer mob mentality, how to buy happiness, and all the other ways to outsmart yourself / David McRaney.
McRaney, David.
2013
BF441 .M428 2013 (Mapit)
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Title You are now less dumb : how to conquer mob mentality, how to buy happiness, and all the other ways to outsmart yourself / David McRaney.
Author McRaney, David.
ISBN 9781592408054 hardcover
1592408052 hardcover
Published New York : Gotham Books, [2013]
Language English
Description 309 pages ; 20 cm
Call Number BF441 .M428 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 153.4/3
Summary The popular blogger and author of the best-selling "You Are Not So Smart" shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, analyzing 15 additional ways people routinely fool themselves in areas ranging from attraction and time wasted to best intentions and the true price of happiness.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-309)
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Self-delusion
Narrative bias
The common belief fallacy
The Benjamin Franklin effect
The post hoc fallacy
The halo effect
Ego depletion
The misattribution of arousal
The illusion of external agency
The backfire effect
Pluralistic ignorance
The no true Scotsman fallacy
The illusion of asymmetric insight
Enclothed cognition
Deindividuation
The sunk cost fallacy
The overjustification effect
The self-enhancement bias.

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