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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 by David McRaney

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This book is clever and interesting at times but on the whole just frustrated me. A lot of the concepts and research discussed have been oversimplified and are presented as though they were the consensus views of the psychological discipline. Even within the same fields of psychology questions about how people think and act are hotly contested, so when the writer starts pulling together elements of behavioural psychology, social psychology, and personality theory it's completely incongruent.