Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam
Shankar Vedantam . Unknown Year . English
Useful DelusionsThe lies we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers, and coworkers. They can explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don’t, why some nations hold together while others splinter.Useful Delusions
Categories: Literary Fiction
About the Author
Shankar Vedantam is a science correspondent at National Public Radio, based in Washington DC. He was formerly a national correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is interested in how insights from psychology and the social sciences can change the way we think about ordinary events in our lives, as well as news events. Learn more about Shankar at www.vedantam.com and follow him on Twitter @HiddenBrain and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/HiddenBrain
