👁️ Cognitive Illusions

Fascinating explorations of how our minds systematically deceive us — the perceptual tricks, logical fallacies, and mental mirages that feel utterly convincing yet lead us astray.

Sleights of Mind

by Stephen L. Macknik • 2010

Every magic trick exploits a specific neural shortcut. What sleight of hand reveals about the brain.

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🪞 Perceptual Illusions 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Attention And Awareness

Sleights of Mind 91%

Every magic trick exploits a specific neural shortcut. What sleight of hand reveals about the brain.

by Stephen L. Macknik 2010

3.94

3k+ ratings

🪞 Perceptual Illusions 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Attention And Awareness

How We Know What Isn't So

by Thomas Gilovich • 1991

The mind finds pattern in noise, then argues for it with absolute conviction.

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3k+

🧠 Cognitive Biases ❤️ Motivated Reasoning 🎲 Randomness Perception

How We Know What Isn't So 91%

The mind finds pattern in noise, then argues for it with absolute conviction.

by Thomas Gilovich 1991

3.95

3k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases ❤️ Motivated Reasoning 🎲 Randomness Perception

You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney • 2011

Your brain is a self-justifying storyteller, and it's hiding the evidence from you.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Psychology 🎭 Self-Delusion

You Are Not So Smart 91%

Your brain is a self-justifying storyteller, and it's hiding the evidence from you.

by David McRaney 2011

3.86

36k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Psychology 🎭 Self-Delusion

The Mind is Flat

by Nick Chater • 2018

Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.

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852

🧠 Folk Psychology Critique 🔍 Consciousness Studies 🎭 Confabulation

The Mind is Flat 90%

Your inner life is not an archive. Every belief and emotion is improvised in the moment.

by Nick Chater 2018

3.74

852 ratings

🧠 Folk Psychology Critique 🔍 Consciousness Studies 🎭 Confabulation

Incognito

by David Eagleman • 2011

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

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Incognito 90%

Your brain has already decided before you know it. Consciousness is just the press release.

by David Eagleman 2011

4.09

35k+ ratings

Don't Believe Everything You Think

by Thomas Kida • 2006

Your brain hunts for stories, ignores stats, and rewrites its memories. Skepticism is the repair.

3.82

853

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Scientific Skepticism 💡 Critical Thinking

Don't Believe Everything You Think Summary

Don't Believe Everything You Think 90%

Your brain hunts for stories, ignores stats, and rewrites its memories. Skepticism is the repair.

by Thomas Kida 2006

3.82

853 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Scientific Skepticism 💡 Critical Thinking

Brain Bugs

by Dean Buonomano • 2011

Phantom limbs, false memories, irrational fears: the flaws evolution built into your brain.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📝 Memory Flaws

Brain Bugs 90%

Phantom limbs, false memories, irrational fears: the flaws evolution built into your brain.

by Dean Buonomano 2011

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3k+ ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📝 Memory Flaws

The Mind's Eye

by Oliver Sacks • 2010

Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🩺 Clinical Neurology 🔄 Brain Plasticity

The Mind's Eye 90%

Blindness doesn't silence the visual brain. It retrains it, exposing how perception is built.

by Oliver Sacks 2010

3.92

14k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🩺 Clinical Neurology 🔄 Brain Plasticity

The Mind's Past

by Michael S. Gazzaniga • 1998

Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 👁️ Consciousness Studies ⚡ Unconscious Processing

The Mind's Past 90%

Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.

by Michael S. Gazzaniga 1998

3.77

115 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 👁️ Consciousness Studies ⚡ Unconscious Processing

Tricks of the Mind

by Derren Brown • 2006

A mentalist reveals how cognitive biases, cold reading, and placebos hijack your brain every day.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 💭 Memory Techniques

Tricks of the Mind 90%

A mentalist reveals how cognitive biases, cold reading, and placebos hijack your brain every day.

by Derren Brown 2006

4.04

7k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 💭 Memory Techniques

The User Illusion

by Tor Nørretranders • 1991

Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 📡 Information Theory

The User Illusion 90%

Consciousness is not a window onto reality. It's a dashboard. And it's half a second behind.

by Tor Nørretranders 1991

4.31

1k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 📡 Information Theory

Neuroscience and Critical Thinking

by Albert Rutherford • 2019

Your brain edits reality before you see it. How to catch the cuts and decide better.

3.47

121

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 📰 Information Literacy

Neuroscience and Critical Thinking Summary

Neuroscience and Critical Thinking 90%

Your brain edits reality before you see it. How to catch the cuts and decide better.

by Albert Rutherford 2019

3.47

121 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 📰 Information Literacy

Subliminal

by Leonard Mlodinow • 2012

The unconscious builds reality, distorts memory, and chooses your friends. You just take the credit.

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing ⚖️ Cognitive Biases

Subliminal 90%

The unconscious builds reality, distorts memory, and chooses your friends. You just take the credit.

by Leonard Mlodinow 2012

4.05

14k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing ⚖️ Cognitive Biases

I Think, Therefore I Lie

by Warren Archer • 2019

Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.

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🤥 Self-Deception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

I Think, Therefore I Lie 90%

Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.

by Warren Archer 2019

3.44

9 ratings

🤥 Self-Deception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Hallucinations

by Oliver Sacks • 2012

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States

Hallucinations 90%

Hallucinations are not the brain breaking. They are the brain showing how it builds reality.

by Oliver Sacks 2012

3.93

25k+ ratings

🧠 Clinical Neurology 👁️ Hallucinations 🌌 Altered States

No Self, No Problem

by Chris Niebauer • 2019

Split-brain patients proved the self is a story your left hemisphere tells on the fly.

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🧠 Neuropsychology ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🪞 Illusion Of Self

No Self, No Problem 89%

Split-brain patients proved the self is a story your left hemisphere tells on the fly.

by Chris Niebauer 2019

4.25

4k+ ratings

🧠 Neuropsychology ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🪞 Illusion Of Self

The Invisible Gorilla

by Christopher Chabris • 2010

Your memory rewrites the past, your confidence hides incompetence, and there's a gorilla nobody saw.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Attention Management 💭 Memory Fallibility

The Invisible Gorilla 89%

Your memory rewrites the past, your confidence hides incompetence, and there's a gorilla nobody saw.

by Christopher Chabris 2010

3.91

15k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Attention Management 💭 Memory Fallibility

Black and White Thinking

by Kevin Dutton • 2021

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

3.57

489

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking

Black and White Thinking 89%

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

by Kevin Dutton 2021

3.57

489 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking

Why We Believe What We Believe

by Andrew B. Newberg • 2006

Prayer dims the self, meditation sharpens focus: the neural signature of why you believe.

4.01

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧱 Belief Formation

Why We Believe What We Believe 89%

Prayer dims the self, meditation sharpens focus: the neural signature of why you believe.

by Andrew B. Newberg 2006

4.01

331 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧱 Belief Formation

A Mind of Its Own

by Cordelia Fine • 2005

Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤥 Self-Deception ⚖️ Moral Psychology

A Mind of Its Own 89%

Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.

by Cordelia Fine 2005

3.86

3k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤥 Self-Deception ⚖️ Moral Psychology

The Scout Mindset

by Julia Galef • 2021

Most thinking is self-defense. Clear thinking is a switch you never learned to flip.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Self-Deception 🤲 Intellectual Humility

The Scout Mindset 89%

Most thinking is self-defense. Clear thinking is a switch you never learned to flip.

by Julia Galef 2021

4.09

7k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Self-Deception 🤲 Intellectual Humility

Idiot Brain

by Dean Burnett • 2016

Motion sickness, overeating, and anxiety: not glitches but survival instincts from the savannah.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Idiot Brain 89%

Motion sickness, overeating, and anxiety: not glitches but survival instincts from the savannah.

by Dean Burnett 2016

3.97

11k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Cognition

by Daniel Reisberg • 2005

How the mind constructs perception, memory, and reasoning, revealed by key experiments.

3.78

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology 👁️ Attention & Perception 🧩 Memory Systems

Cognition 89%

How the mind constructs perception, memory, and reasoning, revealed by key experiments.

by Daniel Reisberg 2005

3.78

281 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Psychology 👁️ Attention & Perception 🧩 Memory Systems

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman • 2011

You decide first. You explain later. A Nobel laureate reveals the hidden system that chose.

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🔬 Cognitive Biases 📊 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Heuristics And Biases

Thinking, Fast and Slow 89%

You decide first. You explain later. A Nobel laureate reveals the hidden system that chose.

by Daniel Kahneman 2011

4.17

595k+ ratings

🔬 Cognitive Biases 📊 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Heuristics And Biases

You Are Now Less Dumb

by David McRaney • 2013

You don't see reality. Your brain constructs a flawed model and calls it the truth.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 📚 Popular Psychology 👥 Social Psychology

You Are Now Less Dumb 89%

You don't see reality. Your brain constructs a flawed model and calls it the truth.

by David McRaney 2013

3.95

5k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 📚 Popular Psychology 👥 Social Psychology

Phantoms in the Brain

by V.S. Ramachandran • 1998

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

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🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders

Phantoms in the Brain 89%

A missing arm can still hurt. That paradox unlocks how your brain constructs reality.

by V.S. Ramachandran 1998

4.27

21k+ ratings

🧠 Neuropsychology 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🏥 Neurological Disorders

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

by Leon Festinger • 1957

The mental shortcuts that run your life are full of bugs. Here's how to debug them.

4.02

193

🧠 Mental Models 🔍 Cognitive Biases ⚡ Cognitive Dissonance

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Summary

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance 89%

The mental shortcuts that run your life are full of bugs. Here's how to debug them.

by Leon Festinger 1957

4.02

193 ratings

🧠 Mental Models 🔍 Cognitive Biases ⚡ Cognitive Dissonance

The Man Who Tasted Words

by Guy Leschziner • 2022

What a man who hears his own eyeballs move reveals about the illusions of your senses.

4.04

874

🧠 Sensory Neuroscience 🌀 Perception And Reality 🔮 Predictive Processing

The Man Who Tasted Words 89%

What a man who hears his own eyeballs move reveals about the illusions of your senses.

by Guy Leschziner 2022

4.04

874 ratings

🧠 Sensory Neuroscience 🌀 Perception And Reality 🔮 Predictive Processing

ذهن فریبکار شما

by Steven Novella • 1395

Your brain was built to fool you. A neurologist's method for thinking clearly anyway.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

ذهن فریبکار شما 89%

Your brain was built to fool you. A neurologist's method for thinking clearly anyway.

by Steven Novella 1395

4.23

1k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

by Carol Tavris • 2007

Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.

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🧠 Cognitive Dissonance 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Motivated Reasoning

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) Summary

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) 89%

Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.

by Carol Tavris 2007

4.04

29k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Dissonance 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Motivated Reasoning

The Brain

by David Eagleman • 2015

Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🎭 Constructed Reality

The Brain 89%

Your self is a construction rebuilt daily by a brain that will run on any hardware.

by David Eagleman 2015

4.25

23k+ ratings

🧠 Neuroplasticity 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🎭 Constructed Reality

Once Upon A Number

by John Allen Paulos • 1998

Stories and statistics are two languages your brain was never designed to reconcile.

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228

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔢 Popular Mathematics 🔍 Philosophy Of Math

Once Upon A Number 89%

Stories and statistics are two languages your brain was never designed to reconcile.

by John Allen Paulos 1998

3.36

228 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔢 Popular Mathematics 🔍 Philosophy Of Math

Suspicious Minds

by Rob Brotherton • 2015

Seeing patterns that aren't there once kept us alive. Now it fuels conspiracy theories.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🕵️ Conspiracy Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Suspicious Minds 89%

Seeing patterns that aren't there once kept us alive. Now it fuels conspiracy theories.

by Rob Brotherton 2015

3.87

2k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🕵️ Conspiracy Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Science of Harry Potter

by Roger Highfield • 2002

Your brain is wired for magic. The science that explains why, from alchemy to Harry Potter.

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The Science of Harry Potter 89%

Your brain is wired for magic. The science that explains why, from alchemy to Harry Potter.

by Roger Highfield 2002

4.02

3k+ ratings

Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You

by Albert Moukheiber • 2019

Reality is your brain's best guess. Its shortcuts are predictable, and spotting them is trainable.

3.85

803

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Critical Thinking 📰 Misinformation

Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You Summary

Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You 89%

Reality is your brain's best guess. Its shortcuts are predictable, and spotting them is trainable.

by Albert Moukheiber 2019

3.85

803 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Critical Thinking 📰 Misinformation

Riveted

by Jim Davies • 2014

Religion and art exploit the same brain quirks. Science alone refuses to use them, and it's losing.

3.70

406

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Cognition

Riveted 89%

Religion and art exploit the same brain quirks. Science alone refuses to use them, and it's losing.

by Jim Davies 2014

3.70

406 ratings

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Cognition

Irrationality

by Stuart Sutherland • 1992

Predictable mental errors everyone makes, from overconfidence to throwing good money after bad.

3.91

2k+

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Decision Science 📊 Statistical Thinking

Irrationality 89%

Predictable mental errors everyone makes, from overconfidence to throwing good money after bad.

by Stuart Sutherland 1992

3.91

2k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Decision Science 📊 Statistical Thinking

How to Think About Weird Things

by Theodore Schick Jr. • 1994

A method for evaluating any extraordinary claim, from alien abductions to miracle cures.

3.97

633

🔬 Scientific Skepticism 👻 Paranormal Claims 🪤 Logical Fallacies

How to Think About Weird Things 89%

A method for evaluating any extraordinary claim, from alien abductions to miracle cures.

by Theodore Schick Jr. 1994

3.97

633 ratings

🔬 Scientific Skepticism 👻 Paranormal Claims 🪤 Logical Fallacies

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World

by Keith E. Stanovich • 2009

Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.

4.33

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Probabilistic Reasoning

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World Summary

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World 89%

Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.

by Keith E. Stanovich 2009

4.33

48 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Probabilistic Reasoning

Visual Intelligence

by Amy E. Herman • 2016

Art-based exercises that train your eye to see what everyone else misses, used by the FBI.

4.10

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🔍 Perception Training 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perspective-Taking

Visual Intelligence 89%

Art-based exercises that train your eye to see what everyone else misses, used by the FBI.

by Amy E. Herman 2016

4.10

3k+ ratings

🔍 Perception Training 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perspective-Taking

Deviate

by Beau Lotto • 2017

Your brain evolved for survival, not truth. That bias is the engine of creativity.

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👁️ Perception Science 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🎨 Creativity Science

Deviate 89%

Your brain evolved for survival, not truth. That bias is the engine of creativity.

by Beau Lotto 2017

3.73

2k+ ratings

👁️ Perception Science 🧠 Neuroplasticity 🎨 Creativity Science

This Book Has Issues

by Christian Jarrett • 2008

Your brain lies to you constantly. A guided tour of psychology's most unsettling experiments.

3.55

350

🎓 Introductory Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Illusion

This Book Has Issues 89%

Your brain lies to you constantly. A guided tour of psychology's most unsettling experiments.

by Christian Jarrett 2008

3.55

350 ratings

🎓 Introductory Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Illusion

Mastermind

by Maria Konnikova • 2013

Learn to think like Sherlock Holmes: a psychologist's method for sharper observation and reasoning.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Deductive Reasoning 🗺️ Mental Models

Mastermind 89%

Learn to think like Sherlock Holmes: a psychologist's method for sharper observation and reasoning.

by Maria Konnikova 2013

3.55

9k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔍 Deductive Reasoning 🗺️ Mental Models

Surfing Uncertainty

by Andy Clark • 2015

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

4.09

381

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing

Surfing Uncertainty 89%

Reality is the brain's best guess, and action is how the body makes it come true.

by Andy Clark 2015

4.09

381 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔮 Predictive Processing

The Irrational Ape

by David Robert Grimes • 2019

Your brain runs on faulty code, and politicians, advertisers, and quacks have the manual.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Logical Fallacies 💭 Critical Thinking

The Irrational Ape 89%

Your brain runs on faulty code, and politicians, advertisers, and quacks have the manual.

by David Robert Grimes 2019

4.26

1k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Logical Fallacies 💭 Critical Thinking

Judgment Under Uncertainty

by Daniel Kahneman • 1982

Mental shortcuts rule under uncertainty; each creates predictable mistakes.

4.17

1k+

🔎 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Heuristics 💰 Behavioral Economics

Judgment Under Uncertainty 89%

Mental shortcuts rule under uncertainty; each creates predictable mistakes.

by Daniel Kahneman 1982

4.17

1k+ ratings

🔎 Cognitive Biases 🧩 Heuristics 💰 Behavioral Economics

Consciousness

by Susan Blackmore • 2003

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

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🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self

Consciousness 89%

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

by Susan Blackmore 2003

3.87

3k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self

Heuristics and Biases

by Thomas Gilovich • 2002

The mental shortcuts that speed your thinking also produce your most predictable mistakes.

4.39

477

🧠 Cognitive Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases

Heuristics and Biases 89%

The mental shortcuts that speed your thinking also produce your most predictable mistakes.

by Thomas Gilovich 2002

4.39

477 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases

A Joosr Guide to... The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

by Joosr • 2015

Bad decisions follow the same few patterns. Learn the traps, and stop falling for them.

3.57

🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Heuristics And Biases 💸 Behavioral Economics

A Joosr Guide to... The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli Summary

A Joosr Guide to... The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli 89%

Bad decisions follow the same few patterns. Learn the traps, and stop falling for them.

by Joosr 2015

3.57

14 ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Heuristics And Biases 💸 Behavioral Economics

The Knowledge Illusion

by Steven Sloman • 2017

Ask someone to explain a toilet. They can't. That gap powers civilization.

3.84

3k+

🎭 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Distributed Cognition 👥 Collective Intelligence

The Knowledge Illusion 89%

Ask someone to explain a toilet. They can't. That gap powers civilization.

by Steven Sloman 2017

3.84

3k+ ratings

🎭 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Distributed Cognition 👥 Collective Intelligence

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