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Books like When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger is about belief, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Read the summary → - Predictably Irrational
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Dan Ariely · Psychology
Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.
Read the summary → - You Are Not So Smart
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David McRaney · Psychology
David McRaney is a journalist who started a blog called "You Are Not So Smart" about self-delusion in 2009, and turned it into this book in 2011.
Read the summary → - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
The Righteous Mind is Jonathan Haidt's argument that moral reasoning is not the source of our moral judgments — it's the press secretary for them.
Read the summary → - Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson · Psychology
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson wrote this book about the mechanisms by which people protect their sense of themselves as competent, moral, and well-intentioned after they have done something that contradicts that self-image.
Read the summary → - 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan Weinschenk · Psychology
Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral scientist and UX consultant, and this book is her translation of cognitive science research into practical guidance for designers.
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