The believing brain

Michael Shermer

About this book

Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.

Subjects

  • belief and doubt
  • cognitive neuroscience
  • cognitive styles
  • glaube
  • knowledge, theory of
  • religionspsychologie
  • theory of knowledge