The art of recognizing nonsense. How not to mislead yourself and make the right decisions

Now everywhere: from commercials and conversations with friends to declarations of public figures and scientific articles - you can find obviously false, distorted or unverified information. We consume it more and more, thinking little about reliability simply because it is so simpler.

John V. PetroChelli, a social psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Wake Forest founded a laboratory of study of Chushi in order to understand that he encourages a person to appeal To dubious data and mislead other people. He found the answer to this question thanks to controlled experiments and communication with leading specialists in various fields - from financial analyst to a motorist - and deduced recommendations on how not to become a sacrifice of a nonsense (not only its receiver, but also a distributor).

This book will help you form a habit of constructively evaluate everything that you hear and speak, find the truth in an information chaos, will teach you how to communicate with people who cannot be convinced of anything and make rational purchases.