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Author Duffy, Bobby, author.

Title Why we're wrong about nearly everything : a theory of human misunderstanding / Bobby Duffy.

Publisher New York : Basic Books, 2019.
©2018

ISBN 9781541618084 (hardcover)



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Edition First US edition.
Description 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note(S) "Originally published in 2018 by Atlantic Books in Great Britain."
Summary A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside world.
Contents Introduction: perils everywhere -- A healthy mind -- Sexual fantasies -- On the money? -- Inside and out: immigration and religion -- Safe and secure -- Political misdirection and disengagement -- Brexit and Trump: wishful and wrongful thinking -- Filtering our worlds -- Worldwide worry -- Who's most wrong? -- Managing our misperceptions.
Subject(S) Knowledge, Sociology of.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Perception.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Added Title Why we are wrong about nearly everything
Theory of human misunderstanding
Perils of perception.
ISBN 9781541618084 (hardcover)