{"product_id":"the-self-deception-playbook-how-your-brain-hides-the-truth-from-you-9798258824844","title":"The Self-Deception Playbook: How Your Brain Hides the Truth from You","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Calloway\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour mind is lying to you right now, and you cannot tell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Loftus planted false memories of being lost in a shopping mall into the minds of perfectly healthy adults. Leon Festinger watched a doomsday cult believe more fervently after the flood they predicted failed to arrive. Dan Kahan showed that higher intelligence does not protect you from motivated reasoning. It sharpens it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Self-Deception Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e walks through ten mechanisms by which your brain quietly hides the truth from you, from false memory and cognitive dissonance to confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect, hindsight bias, and the strange fact that smart people are particularly vulnerable to believing strange things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter tracks a named study with careful attention to what the evidence does and does not show, including the replication crisis and the statistical critique of famous findings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. There are no five steps to rationality. What you will find is a grounded, evidence-based tour of the machinery of self-deception, along with a few modest techniques borrowed from forecasters, intelligence analysts, and cognitive scientists for catching yourself at the moments when catching yourself matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of Daniel Kahneman, Adam Grant, Will Storr, and Robert Sapolsky.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook two of \u003cb\u003eDr. James Calloway: Applied Behavioral Psychology\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47966755192983,"sku":"9798258824844","price":1413.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258824844.webp?v=1782912142","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-self-deception-playbook-how-your-brain-hides-the-truth-from-you-9798258824844","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}