Misbelief: What makes rational people believe irrational things
Publication details: London, Heligo Books: 2023.Description: viii, 311p., ref., ind., 20 cm X 13 cmISBN:- 978-1785121210
- 001.923
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Recommended by: Kallol Das
Content:
Demonized: An introduction That You Should Read Even lf You Are the Kind of Person Who Usually Skips introductions
PaIt l: The Funnel of Misbelief
Chapter 1 How Could that Person Believe That thing?
ChaPter 2 The Funnel at Work
Part ll: The Emotional Elements and the Story of Stress
Chapter 3 Pressure, Stress' Bending' and Breaking
Chapter, 4 Picking a Villain as a Way to Regain Control
Part 3 : The Cognitive Elements and the Story of our dysfunctional 'information' Processing Machinery
5. Our Search for the Truth We Want to Believe in
6. Working Hard to Believe What We Already Believe
Part lv: The Personality elements and the Story of Our individual
Chapter 7. Lessons on Personality from Alien Abductees
Chapter 8 An Attempt to Classify the Role of Personality in the Funnel of Misbelief
Part V: The Social Elements and the Story ol Tribalism
Chapter 9 Ostracism, Belonging, and the Social Attraction of Misbelief
Chapter 10 The Social Accelerator
Part Vl: Misbelief, Trust, and the Story of 0ur Future
Chapter 11 Can We Afford to Trust Again and Can We Afford Not To?
Chapter 12 Why Superman Gives Me Hope: A Final Word (Not Really)
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