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A MIND OF ITS OWN
How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Cordelia Fine
W.W.Norton, 2006
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers will review and learn the importance of research on the brain’s tendency to self-delusion, including hindsight bias, wishful thinking, unrealistic optimism, and moral excuse-making.
We read about the extraordinary workings of our hundred-billion-celled brain: its amazing capacities to regulate all sensation, perception, thinking, and feeling; the power to shape all experience and define our identity. Indeed, the brain’s power is being confirmed every day in new studies and research. But there is a brain we don’t generally hear about, a brain we might not want to hear about . . . the 'prima donna within.' Exposing the mind’s deceptions and exploring how the mind defends and glorifies the ego, Dr. Fine illustrates the brain’s tendency to self-delusion.
Cordelia Fine, Ph.D., is a research associate in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University.
7 CE credits; 224 pages
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