YOU ARE NOT SO SMART

Based on the author’s popular blog, each chapter illuminates the lies we tell ourselves and covers topics such as learned helplessness, hindsight bias, procrastination, the illusion of control, brand loyalty, cult indoctrination, and selling out.

“In an Idiocracy dominated by cable TV bobbleheads, government propagandists, and corporate spinmeisters, many of us know that mass ignorance is a huge problem. Now, thanks to David McRaney’s mind-blowing book, we can finally see the scientific roots of that problem. Anybody still self-aware enough to wonder why society now worships willful stupidity should read this book.”
—David Sirota, author of Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

“We’re smarter after reading McRaney’s book.”
—The Charlotte Observer

“Even seasoned psych lovers will learn something new.”
—Psychology Today