by David McRaney
McRaney catalogs forty-eight cognitive biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies (confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect, hindsight bias, the Texas sharpshooter fallacy) in short, pop-culture-rich chapters. By the last page, readers are meant to leave thoroughly disabused of the idea that they are reliable narrators of their own minds.
In this collection, You Are Not So Smart references 4 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, Predictably Irrational and Influence.
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Repeatedly draws on Kahneman and Tversky's framing, anchoring, and availability research when explaining heuristics and cognitive biases
Cites Ariely's Predictably Irrational experiments on priming, arousal, and relativity throughout chapters on self-deception and choice
References Cialdini's Influence research on reciprocity, consistency, and social proof when explaining compliance and persuasion
Uses Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness research on affective forecasting and the impact bias to explain why we misjudge future emotions
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