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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 We are often willing to form extraordinary beliefs on the basis of very flimsy evidence. For example, I had seen a ghost when I woke up to get a drink of water. However, an explanation that is more prosaic than ghostly exists. We can experience hypnopompic hallucinations, which occur as we’re coming out of sleep.
#2 We often believe things because we want to believe them, not because of the evidence. We can also believe things that are not true. For example, many people believe that silicon breast implants cause major disease, but research indicates that they're not true.
#3 We make many good decisions every day, but we also make many mistakes. Our beliefs and decisions can affect not only our personal lives, but also societal decisions that have an impact on us all.
#4 A skeptic is a person who wants to see and evaluate the evidence before believing something. The more important or extraordinary the belief, the more compelling the evidence should be before we believe it.

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Cognition

Psychology

Sociologie, société et politique

Cognitive Psychology

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	14 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822509856
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We are often willing to form extraordinary beliefs on the basis of very flimsy evidence. For example, I had seen a ghost when I woke up to get a drink of water. However, an explanation that is more prosaic than ghostly exists. We can experience hypnopompic hallucinations, which occur as we’re coming out of sleep.

#2

We often believe things because we want to believe them, not because of the evidence. We can also believe things that are not true. For example, many people believe that silicon breast implants cause major disease, but research indicates that they're not true.

#3

We make many good decisions every day, but we also make many mistakes. Our beliefs and decisions can affect not only our personal lives, but also societal decisions that have an impact on us all.

#4

A skeptic is a person who wants to see and evaluate the evidence before believing something. The more important or extraordinary the belief, the more compelling the evidence should be before we believe it.

#5

We are storytelling creatures. We have evolved as such, and we enjoy stories. We are especially interested in the personal stories of others, but we rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in life.

#6

We have a tendency to pay attention to and remember information that confirms our existing beliefs and expectations. We ignore contradictory information that may be very relevant to the decisions we make.

#7

We are causal-seeking animals. We have an ingrained desire to find cause and effect relationships in the world. This tendency serves us well when it comes to finding causes for things, but it can also lead us to overapply it, seeing causes where there are only coincidences.

#8

Our perceptions are greatly influenced by our expectations and desires. Our perceptions are also greatly affected by what we expect to see and what we want to see. Our perceptions are therefore unreliable, which should make us wary of beliefs that are based only on our personal experiences.

#9

We often use simplifying strategies to make decisions. These strategies can be very beneficial, as they save us time and effort. However, they can also lead to inaccurate judgments.

#10

Our memories can change, and they can even create new memories for events that never actually happened. They are not a literal snapshot of events that we later retrieve from our album of past experiences. Instead, memory is constructive.

#11

We have a number of tendencies that can lead to faulty beliefs and decisions. Some of them are deeply rooted in our cognitive processes because of our evolutionary development, while others are there to simplify our complex lives and decision making.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Many people, even highly trained professionals, believe in incredibly bizarre things, like talking with the dead, therapeutic touch, and dowsing for water. It can happen to you and me.

#2

The technique of facilitated communication has been used since the 1970s to help communicate with severely autistic children. It has been proven to be effective, but when controlled scientific studies were conducted, it was shown to be worthless.

#3

The claims of facilitated communication are testable, but people are willing to accept them on the basis of unscientific evidence. We often believe what we want to believe.

#4

The variety of strange things that people believe is limitless. Many believe that aliens have visited the earth, psychics can foretell the future, astrology works, crystals can heal sickness, Bigfoot exists, the Bermuda triangle swallows up ships and planes, and people can levitate.

#5

We live in an era where we have seen a rise of so-called New Age thinking, which rejects much of western science. This has given us channelers who speak with the dead, crystals possessing the power to heal, and the books and lives of Shirley McLaine.

#6

The author also believes that fairies exist. However, when the evidence is examined, it turns out that the belief is not supported by hard physical evidence. Many people believe things that aren’t true.

#7

The media is not all bad. It can provide us with valuable information, but it also provides us with a lot of misinformation. It is important to be able to distinguish between the two.

#8

The media not only promotes beliefs in the weird, but they can also affect our beliefs concerning things that are not bizarre. For example, the media often focuses on personal accounts rather than scientific or statistical data when reporting on health dangers.

#9

The media can affect our individual beliefs and society’s public policy decisions. Unfortunately, many of the most sensational reports concern weird and erroneous beliefs. We must be vigilant in how we think to avoid being taken in by such reporting.

#10

The media continued to play up the risk of silicon breast implants. Lawsuits were filed and juries awarded women up to $25 million for illnesses caused by their implants.

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