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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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRaney, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Gotham Books/Penguin Group, [2011]
Subjects:
Thought and thinking.
Perception.
Truth > Psychological aspects.
Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Reason.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.