Summary: The authors expose the fascinating ways that we can blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and happiness ... drawing on the extensive correspondence the authors have received over the years, they have added a section that outlines the many ways that readers have been using [the book] to improve their lives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 LEATrivers, Robert.
Summary: Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 TRIVedantam, Shankar
Summary: "From the New York Times-bestselling author and host of NPR's Hidden Brain comes a counterintuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success. Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to ourcommunities, and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, host of NPR's Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 VEDBerns, Gregory
Summary: "It's a commonplace to say that we each tell stories about ourselves, trying to shape how others perceive us, and how we perceive ourselves. And the commonplace is true, as far as it goes--which isn't very far at all. As neuroscientist Gregory Berns shows in The Self Delusion, you, I, we don't just tell stories about ourselves. We are the stories--there's no stable personality to tell stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 BERHallinan, Joseph T.
Summary: Presents an analysis of the human inclination toward self-deception that explains how selective misperception influences every major aspect of life, has powerful placebo effects, and does not always have negative consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014