The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

by Michael Shermer

Book Overview

The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805091254
• ISBN13: 9780805091250
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Times Books
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"