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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: believing brain
    sub title: from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths
  name:
    name part: Shermer, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
  table of contents: Mr. D'Arpino's dilemma -- Dr. Collins's conversion -- A skeptic's journey -- Patternicity -- Agenticity -- The believing neuron -- Belief in the afterlife -- Belief in god -- Belief in aliens -- Belief in conspiracies -- Politics of belief -- Confirmations of belief -- Geographies of belief -- Cosmologies of belief -- Epilogue: the truth is out there.
  note: Michael Shermer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive neuroscience
  classification: BF773 .S54 2011
  classification: 153.4
  identifier: 9780805091250
  identifier: 0805091254
  identifier: 2010030706
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100723
    record change date: 20151202123057.0
    record identifier: in00002703648