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The believing brain : from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths

Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well
eBook, English, 2011
Times Books, New York, 2011
1 online resource (xii, 385 pages : illustrations)
9781429972611, 1429972610
1147717348
Mr. D'Arpino's dilemma
Dr. Collins's conversion
A skeptic's journey
Patternicity
Agenticity
The believing neuron
Belief in the afterlife
Belief in god
Belief in aliens
Belief in conspiracies
Politics of belief
Confirmations of belief
Geographies of belief
Cosmologies of belief
Epilogue: the truth is out there
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