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Misbelief : what makes rational people believe irrational things / Dan Ariely.

Summary:

"The rise of fake news and AI-generated deep fakes have created a crisis of trust, making it more difficult than ever to know when we are being misled. Renowned social scientist Dan Ariely explores how the concept of misbelief can lead anyone to doubt established truth and embrace conspiracy theories. Drawing on his first-hand experience of being the subject of disinformation, Ariely investigates the psychological drivers and motives behind irrational beliefs, and what we can do to combat them. Urgent and timely, Misbelief offers a positive vision of how we can restore trust in society." -- Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781785120800
Physical Description: 311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: London : Heligo Books, an imprint of Black & White Publishing Group, 2024.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in the UK in hardback in 2023." -- Title verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-298) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Demonized: An Introduction That You Should Read Even If YOu Are the Kind of Person Who Usually Skips Introductions -- Part I: The Funnel of Misbelief: Chapter 1: How Could That Person Believe That Thing? -- Chapter 2: The Funnel at Work -- Part II: 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 III: The Cognitive Elements and the Story of Our Dysfunctional Information-Processing Machinery: Chapter 5: Our Search for the Truth We Want to Believe In -- Chapter 6: Working Hard to Believe What We Already Believe -- Part IV: The Personality Elements and the Story of Our Individual Differences: 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 of Tribalism: Chapter 9: Ostracism, Belonging, and the Social Attraction of Misbelief -- Chapter 10: The Social Accelerator -- Part VI: Misbelief, Trust, and the Story of Our 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).