Your Deceptive Mind
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by:
Carol Tavris
4.04 avg rating — 28,667 ratings 2. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,424 ratings 
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 5. 
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by:
Thomas Gilovich
3.95 avg rating — 3,155 ratings 5. 
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
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Cordelia Fine
3.86 avg rating — 2,707 ratings 
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by:
Michael Shermer
3.86 avg rating — 9,953 ratings 
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Paradox (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Margaret Cuonzo
3.64 avg rating — 119 ratings 11. 
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
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Allan H. Ropper
3.98 avg rating — 5,657 ratings 14. 
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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Michael Shermer
3.93 avg rating — 7,618 ratings 16. 
Seeing Myself: What Out-of-body Experiences Tell Us About Life, Death and the Mind
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Susan Blackmore
3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings 
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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions 3.94 avg rating — 2,647 ratings
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by:
Robert Kurzban
3.95 avg rating — 863 ratings 23. 
The Fallibility of Memory in Eyewitness Testimony: The Effects of Misinformation on Memory
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Tara L. Shreve
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 23. 
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics (A Bradford Book)
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Gary L. Drescher
4.13 avg rating — 147 ratings 25. 
Affect and Accuracy in Recall: Studies of 'Flashbulb' Memories (Emory Symposia in Cognition, Series Number 4)
by:
Eugene Winograd
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,375 ratings 
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,695 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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Tali Sharot
3.77 avg rating — 1,952 ratings 36. 
Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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Alfred Tarski
3.99 avg rating — 210 ratings 37. 
How to Think Straight: An Introduction to Critical Reasoning
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Antony Flew
3.72 avg rating — 124 ratings 38. 
Bias In Human Reasoning: Cause and Consequences: A Volume In The Essays In cognitive psychology series 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
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Thomas Kida
3.83 avg rating — 843 ratings 
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The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer
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James Randi
3.90 avg rating — 198 ratings 42. 
The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives 3.92 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Leonard Mlodinow
3.95 avg rating — 24,071 ratings 45. 
Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs 3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
by:
Michael Shermer
3.97 avg rating — 3,510 ratings 52. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,260 ratings 53. 
The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations
by:
Mark L. Taper
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Scientific Blunders: A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be...
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Robert Youngson
3.28 avg rating — 65 ratings 
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Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
by:
James Randi
4.02 avg rating — 4,026 ratings 
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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Michael Shermer
3.62 avg rating — 633 ratings 
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Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims
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Massimo Polidoro
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 63. 
The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup (Contemporary Issues
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Philip J. Klass
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 64. 
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
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Gerald Posner
4.03 avg rating — 2,218 ratings 65. 
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
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John Grant
3.63 avg rating — 78 ratings 66. 
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
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Michael Specter
3.73 avg rating — 2,246 ratings 
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False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes 3.63 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace 3.97 avg rating — 348 ratings
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In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters (Science for Nonscientists) (Volume 8) 2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them 3.65 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
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Dan Gardner
3.79 avg rating — 721 ratings 75. 
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average 3.90 avg rating — 9,048 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,375 ratings 78. 
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
