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

ISBN 10: 1592407366 / ISBN 13: 9781592407361

Published by Avery, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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
• Publisher: Avery
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592407366
• ISBN 13: 9781592407361
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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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.

About the Author

David McRaney is a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture. The two-time winner of the William Randolph Hearst Award started the blog youarenotsosmart.com which became a book that's been translated into 17 languages. From there, he started a podcast where he interviews scientists who study the psychology of reasoning, decision-making, and judgment. His second book, You Are Now Less Dumb, was released in 2013, and his third book, How Minds Change was released in 2022. McRaney now gives lectures around the world about these topics.