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On Being Certain:

Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

by Robert Burton
Reviewed by Ellen Skagerberg
Montgomery Village

How can people be so dense? What about gut feelings about a person; they can object all they want, but you know they're up to something. And what happens if the evidence clearly contradicts what you believe -- do you change what you believe, or do you manage to discount the evidence?
In On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not, author Robert Burton examines the contradictory ways we believe and behave by tackling the neuroscience of the brain...read more

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