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your deceptive mind

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What this book knows

Human cognition systematically deceives itself through predictable flaws in memory, pattern recognition, logic, and probability that trained skepticism can partially correct.

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mind-and-cognition

Therapists encouraged clients to remember details of abuse, leading many thousands to manufacture memories of intense abuse and believe they were real.
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Psychosis is essentially a lack of reality testing—a decreased ability to test the patterns we see against reality, making the most bizarre ones seem real.
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When a player loses all available money, that's an absorption wall—but when winning, there is no point at which the casino goes broke.
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self-and-identity

Conspiracy theorists envision themselves as part of an army of light whose goal is to save the world from the dark conspiracy.
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education-and-formation

The false dichotomy could be a false choice between possibilities that are not mutually exclusive, or could reduce a continuum to its extremes.
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The world was created five minutes ago but made to appear ancient—such notions are not falsifiable as constructed; therefore, they are not science.
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