How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Why read it

• You will catch yourself seeing patterns in random events
• You will stop relying on interviews and gut feel when plain facts would do as well
• You will have ways to challenge a doubtful claim, your own or someone else's

Who it is for

• A manager who makes hiring decisions from interviews
• Someone who shares health or news claims online
• A reader who wants to think more clearly

Contents

1. How We Know What Isn’t So
2. 1 Introduction
3. ONE Cognitive Determinants of Questionable Beliefs
4. 2 Something Out of Nothing
5. Figure 2.1 Gateway Arch
6. 3 Too Much from Too Little
7. 4 Seeing What We Expect to See
8. TWO Motivational and Social Determinants of Questionable Beliefs
9. 5 Seeing What We Want to See
10. 6 Believing What We Are Told
11. 7 The Imagined Agreement of Others
12. THREE Examples of Questionable and Erroneous Beliefs
13. 8 Belief in Ineffective “Alternative” Health Practices
14. 9 Belief in the Effectiveness of Questionable Interpersonal Strategies
15. 10 Belief in ESP
16. FOUR Where Do We Go from Here?
17. 11 Challenging Dubious Beliefs

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