The believing brain

from ghosts, gods, and aliens to conspiracies, economics, & politics : how the brain constructs beliefs & reinforces them as truths

by Michael Shermer

First published:
21st century
Language: English

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Description from Wellcome Collection

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.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Occultism and esotericism, and Parapsychology and psychical research.

Occultism and esotericism
Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the description.
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Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Controlled discovery queries from wellcome matched “ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the subtitle and “Ghosts” in the edition subtitle.
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- “Ghosts”· in subtitle
- “Ghosts”· in edition subtitle
Parapsychology and psychical research
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “The Believing Brain”. Retained metadata contains “The Believing Brain” in the title and “The Believing Brain” in the edition title.
- “The Believing Brain”· via Open Library
- “The Believing Brain”· in title
- “The Believing Brain”· in edition title

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Editions

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
from ghosts, gods, and aliens to conspiracies, economics, & politics : how the brain constructs beliefs & reinforces them as truths Wellcome Collection bibliographic record xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm	2011	Times Books	English	9780805091250 0805091254	Print-disabled access	Open Library (opens in a new tab) Open Library (opens in a new tab) Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab)