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BL
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687771
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b509960
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| Main Entry
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McRaney, David.
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| Title & Author
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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 /\ David McRaney.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Gotham Books/Penguin Group,, c2011.
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xvi, 302 p.)
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| ISBN
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1101542470 (electronic bk.)
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: 1101545356 (electronic bk.)
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: 9781101542477 (electronic bk.)
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: 9781101545355 (electronic bk.)
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1592406599
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9781592406593
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-302).
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| Contents
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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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McRaney 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 sometimes those stories aren't true.
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Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
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Perception.
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Reason.
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Thought and thinking.
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Truth-- Psychological aspects.
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153
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