—Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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