Books by David McRaney and Complete Book Reviews

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself
David McRaney. Gotham, $22.50 (302p) ISBN 978-1-592-40659-3
McRaney, a Hattiesburg, Miss., resident and two-time winner of the William Randolph Hearst Award, writes simplified descriptions of psychology experiments on his blog youarenotsosmart.com. He soon found success, receiving between 17,000 to 25,000...
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You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
David McRaney. Gotham, $22.50 (288p) ISBN 978-1-592-40805-4
McRaney’s newest, a follow-up to 2012’s You Are Not So Smart, explores the ways in which the brain “cheats and edits and alters reality.” The Mississippi-based journalist and blogger ranges far and wide in his explication of various theories of...
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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney. Portfolio, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-59319-029-6
“What does the phrase ‘change your mind’ even mean?” asks journalist McRaney (You Are Not So Smart) in this fascinating take. To investigate how people’s opinions can be changed, he speaks with a former “9/11 truther” who was a “leader in the......
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