You are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
ISBN-13:
9781592408795
ISBN-10:
1592408796
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
David McRaney
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Avery
Format:
Paperback
320 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781592408795
ISBN-10:
1592408796
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
David McRaney
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Avery
Format:
Paperback
320 pages
Summary
You are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself (ISBN-13: 9781592408795 and ISBN-10: 1592408796), written by authors
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Description
The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains.
A mix of popular psychology and trivia, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane.
Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of seventeen ways we fool ourselves every day, including:
A mix of popular psychology and trivia, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane.
Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of seventeen ways we fool ourselves every day, including:
- Enclothed Cognition (the clothes you wear change your behavior and influence your mental abilities)
- The Benjamin Franklin Effect (how you grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate the people you harm).
- Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality)
- The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater effect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us)
- Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”)
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Verified Buyer
Sep 25, 2022
Great read! Difficult concepts made easy to understand without make you feel dumb.
Verified Buyer
May 31, 2022
Very interesting information on human behavior and very relatable. I read it twice.
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