{"product_id":"9781592407361","title":"You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you’re deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic. But here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us—but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not So Smart\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them. But often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter—covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency—is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, \u003ci\u003eYou Are Not So Smart\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054888960240,"sku":"9781592407361","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781592407361_p0.jpg?v=1769901680","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781592407361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}