The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as TruthsThe Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. |
Contents
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The Biology of Belief | 57 |
Agenticity | 87 |
The Believing Neuron | 111 |
Belief in Things Unseen | 139 |
Belief in God | 164 |
Belief in Aliens | 188 |
Belief in Conspiracies | 207 |
Politics of Belief | 231 |
Confirmations of Belief | 256 |
Geographies of Belief | 280 |
Cosmologies of Belief | 304 |
The Truth Is Out There | 334 |
Notes | 345 |
Acknowledgments | 369 |
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