A Mind of it's Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Mind of it's Own Exposing the mind's deceptions and exploring how the mind defends and glorifies the ego, Dr. Fine illustrates the brain's tendency to self-delusion, whether it be hindsight bias, wishful thinking, unrealistic optimism, or moral excuse-making.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 04 February 2011
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9780393331639 ISBN 10: 0393331636
- Sales rank: 54,445
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Full description for A Mind of it's Own
The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brain's tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions. Our brains employ a slew of inborn mind-bugs and prejudices, from hindsight bias to unrealistic optimism, from moral excuse-making to wishful thinking all designed to prevent us from seeing the truth about the world and the people around us, and about ourselves.
