MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012406122
003 DLC
005 20121025092454.0
008 120523s2011 nyu b 000 0 eng d
010 $a 2012406122
020 $a9781592406593
020 $a1592406599
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn706017775
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042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBF441$b.M427 2011
082 00 $a153.4$223
100 1 $aMcRaney, David.
245 10 $aYou are not so smart :$bwhy you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction, and 46 other ways you're deluding yourself /$cDavid McRaney.
260 $aNew York :$bGotham Books/Penguin Group,$cc2011.
300 $axvi, 302 p. ;$c20 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-302).
520 $aMcRaney 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.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aThought and thinking.
650 0 $aPerception.
650 0 $aTruth$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aDefense mechanisms (Psychology)
650 0 $aReason.
650 7 $aThought and thinking.$2sears
650 7 $aReason.$2sears
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2012406122-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2012406122-d.html