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"Provocative enough to cause you to start questioning your each and every action." (Entertainment Weekly) The brain's ability is verified and touted every day in new studies and research. Yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons may not always be doing work for us. Cordelia Fine presents us to a brain we may not want to meet, a brain with a head of its own. She illustrates the brain's trend toward self-delusion as she explores the way the head defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions. Our brains hire a slew of inborn mind-bugs and prejudices, from hindsight bias to unrealistic optimism, from moral excuse-making to wishful pondering - all made to prevent us from witnessing the reality about the globe and the people around us, and about ourselves.
