The Great Courses: Your Deceptive Mind

Descrição
The books mentioned within The Great Courses course titled "Your Deceptive Mind".
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
de Daniel Kahneman
11,726 membros
225 resenhas
4.1
2
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
de Carl Sagan
7,061 membros
105 resenhas
½ 4.3
4
Iludidos pelo Acaso: A influência da sorte nos mercados e na vida
de Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4,203 membros
60 resenhas
3.9
5
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
de Ben Goldacre
3,208 membros
104 resenhas
4.2
6
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
de Leonard Mlodinow
2,905 membros
86 resenhas
3.9
7
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
de Edward O. Wilson
2,633 membros
28 resenhas
3.9
8
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
de Michael Shermer
2,424 membros
40 resenhas
3.8
9
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
de John Allen Paulos
2,182 membros
36 resenhas
3.8
10
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
de Dan Ariely
1,546 membros
27 resenhas
4
11
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
de Carol Tavris
1,423 membros
44 resenhas
4.1
13
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
de Richard Wiseman
1,163 membros
30 resenhas
½ 3.7
14
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
de Christopher Chabris
970 membros
26 resenhas
4
16
How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
de Michael Shermer
774 membros
9 resenhas
4
17
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions
de James Randi
749 membros
10 resenhas
4
18
Asimov's New Guide to Science
de Isaac Asimov
678 membros
3 resenhas
4.1
20
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
de Thomas Gilovich
655 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
21
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
de Martin Gardner
652 membros
8 resenhas
4.1
22
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
de Gerald Posner
639 membros
17 resenhas
4.1
23
Science matters : achieving scientific literacy
de Robert M. Hazen
542 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.7
25
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
de Robert Burton
477 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.7
26
How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
de Theodore Schick
444 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.7
27
The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
de Michael Shermer
443 membros
8 resenhas
½ 3.6
28
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
de Stephen L. Macknik
433 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
29
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
de Richard Wiseman
432 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
30
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
de Bruce M. Hood
375 membros
11 resenhas
½ 3.5
31
Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
de Alfred Tarski
354 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.4
32
Consciousness: An Introduction
de Susan Blackmore
339 membros
7 resenhas
4.2
33
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
de Martin Gardner
329 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
34
The Big Book of Urban Legends (The Big book Series)
de Jan Harold Brunvand
312 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
35
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
de Massimo Pigliucci
282 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
36
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
de Thomas E. Kida
251 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.5
37
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better
de Dan Gardner
213 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.6
38
Cults in Our Midst
de Margaret Thaler Singer
183 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.6
39
200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy
de A. K. Dewdney
179 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.4
41
The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer
de James Randi
149 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.6
43
Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science
de E. D. Klemke
142 membros
½ 4.3
44
Scientific Blunders
de Robert M. Youngson
140 membros
1 resenha
3.1
45
The Mind's Past
de Michael S. Gazzaniga
113 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.3
46
How to Think Straight: An Introduction to Critical Reasoning
de Antony Flew
105 membros
2 resenhas
3
47
The Great Book of Optical Illusions
de Al Seckel
91 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.5
48
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
de Terence Hines
79 membros
½ 3.3
50
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
de John Grant
42 membros
2 resenhas
4
51
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
de Joe D. Burchfield
27 membros
54
The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup
de Philip J. Klass
20 membros
3
55
Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims
de Massimo Polidoro
18 membros
½ 3.3
56
Panic Attacks: Media Manipulation and Mass Delusion
de Robert E. Bartholomew
15 membros
4
60
Affect and accuracy in recall : studies of "flashbulb" memories
de Eugene Winograd
4 membros