Kidding Ourselves
The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
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In Kidding Ourselves, Joseph Hallinan offers a nuts-and-bolts look at how this penchant shapes our everyday lives, from the medicines we take to the decisions we make. It shows, for instance, just how much the power of many modern medicines, particularly anti-depressants and painkillers, is largely in our heads. Placebos in modern-day life extend beyond hospitals, to fake thermostats and "elevator close" buttons that don't really work… but give the perception that they do.
Kidding Ourselves brings together a variety of subjects, linking seemingly unrelated ideas in fascinating and unexpected ways. And ultimately, it shows that deceiving ourselves is not always negative or foolish. As increasing numbers of researchers are discovering, it can be incredibly useful, providing us with the resilience we need to persevere, in the boardroom, bedroom, and beyond. Provocative, accessible, and easily applicable to multiple facets of everyday life, Kidding Ourselves is an extraordinary new exploration of our mind's flexibility.
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You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- De: David McRaney
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,465
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,459
You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a lot of guidance
- De A. Yoshida en 02-08-14
De: David McRaney
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Counterclockwise
- Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
- De: Ellen J. Langer
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than 30 years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now has a conclusive answer: opening our minds to what's possible, instead of clinging to accepted notions about what's not, can lead to better health at any age.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly disappointing
- De Stephen en 06-23-09
De: Ellen J. Langer
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
- How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane
- De: Matthew Hutson
- Narrado por: Matthew Hutson, Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
In this witty and perceptive debut, a former editor at Psychology Today shows us how magical thinking makes life worth living. Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows us that even the most hardcore skeptic indulges in magical thinking all the time - and it's crucial to our survival. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Hutson shows us that magical thinking has been so useful to us that it's hardwired into our brains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Highly enjoyable
- De David R Pinsof en 05-01-12
De: Matthew Hutson
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Manufacturing Depression
- The Secret History of a Modern Disease
- De: Gary Greenberg
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Am I happy enough? This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. "Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?" is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured---not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern Gonzo Tour de Force
- De S. Frank en 11-12-11
De: Gary Greenberg
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Polio
- An American Story
- De: David M. Oshinsky
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 424
This comprehensive and gripping narrative, which received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history, covers all the challenges, characters, and controversies in America's relentless struggle against polio. Funded by philanthropy and grassroots contributions, Salk's killed-virus vaccine (1954) and Sabin's live-virus vaccine (1961) began to eradicate this dreaded disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-22-08
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Suspicious Minds
- How Culture Shapes Madness
- De: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Narrado por: Joel Gold, Ian Gold
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 103
Mr. A. was admitted to Dr. Joel Gold’s inpatient unit at Bellevue Hospital in 2002. He was, he said, being filmed constantly, and his life was being broadcast around the world "like The Truman Show" - the 1998 film depicting a man who is unknowingly living out his life as the star of a popular soap opera. Over the next few years, Gold saw a number of patients suffering from what he and his brother, Dr. Ian Gold, began calling the "Truman Show Delusion," launching them on a quest to understand the nature of this particular phenomenon and the nature of madness itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De L. K. en 04-18-16
De: Joel Gold, y otros
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- De: Ethan Watters
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He is a reporter...
- De Briana en 05-07-18
De: Ethan Watters
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The Undead
- Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers - How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
- De: Dick Teresi
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear - and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening
- De Amy Giglio en 07-01-18
De: Dick Teresi
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Mindwise
- Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
- De: Nicholas Epley
- Narrado por: Nicholas Epley
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 322
You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and honestly, to other human beings. At its worst, it is a source of misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict, leading to damaged relationships and broken dreams. How good are you at knowing the minds of others?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Finally gave up - no real point
- De Thomas en 05-12-14
De: Nicholas Epley
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Sway
- The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
- De: Rom Brafman, Ori Brafman
- Narrado por: John Apicella
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 780
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 502
A Harvard Business School student pays over $200 for a $20 bill. Washington, D.C., commuters ignore a free subway concert by a violin prodigy. A veteran airline pilot attempts to take off without control-tower clearance and collides with another plane on the runway. Why do we do the wildly irrational things we sometimes do?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing book
- De Martin Proulx en 12-10-08
De: Rom Brafman, y otros
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
A train is racing toward five men, tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. If a fat man is pushed onto the line, although he will die, his body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man? As David Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex, and important, than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully Rendered Book...
- De Douglas en 01-25-14
De: David Edmonds
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Mindware
- Tools for Smart Thinking
- De: Richard E. Nisbett
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 512
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 434
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 427
Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home, work, and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behavior and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sound scientific advice on how to live your life
- De Neuron en 08-26-15
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Before You Know It
- The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
- De: John Bargh PhD
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
For more than three decades, Dr. John Bargh has been responsible for the revolutionary research into the unconscious mind, research that informed best sellers like Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, in what Dr. John Gottman said "will be the most important and exciting book in psychology that has been written in the past 20 years", Dr. Bargh takes us on an entertaining and enlightening tour of the forces that affect everyday behavior while transforming our understanding of ourselves in profound ways.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Political jab
- De Brad en 10-20-17
De: John Bargh PhD
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Willful Blindness
- Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 270
Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see - not because they're secret or invisible, but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives, and within governments and organizations, and asks: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?
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4 out of 5 stars
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How Not to Be the Blind Leading the Blind
- De Cynthia en 06-29-13
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Blindspot
- De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 569
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 463
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 460
I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. Blindspot is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to interpret.
- De Ryan Arnold en 12-21-15
De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, y otros
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Epic Measures
- One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
- De: Jeremy N. Smith
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time - the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: How do we live and die? - and the visionary mastermind behind it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulously insightful read!
- De Dr. Jack E. Fincham en 10-08-15
De: Jeremy N. Smith
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The Panic Virus
- A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
- De: Seth Mnookin
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
The Panic Virus is a gripping scientific detective story about how grassroots radicals, snake-oil salesmen, and cynical journalists have perpetrated the biggest health-scare hoax of all time. It explores what happens when the media treats all viewpoints as equally valid, regardless of facts, from parents who are convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism to right-wing radicals who believe that climate change is a myth
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible thorough journey
- De Rachel Dewald en 03-22-11
De: Seth Mnookin