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INDEX

accountability, 170 adaptation, 137-38 ADD (attention deficit disorder), 147 addictions, 126-27, i3°> 155 advertising, 81-83 agoraphobia, 151 Ali, Muhammad, 141 Allen, Woody, 118,139 Allman, John, 12-14 alternative hypotheses, 165 ambiguity, 96,98 context and, 100-101,164-65 sentence structure and, 118-21 types of, i2on ancestral (reflexive) system. See reflexive vs.deliberative systems anchoring belief and, 46-48 choice and, 80-81 anecdotal evidence, 171 anxiety, 154

Apollo 13, 2

Aristotle, 6,124,175

articulation, 106,107-9 auto accidents, 147 awareness of origins of beliefs, 40-43 of stupid choices, 86-87

Bargh, John, 25 Bayes, Rev. Thomas, 6n Bayesian optimality, 6-7 belief awareness of origins of, 40-43 biased reasoning and, 53-57 components of, 65 contextual memory and, 43-46 hearing and, 65-67 irrationality and, 57-60, 64-65 logic and, 60-62 mental contamination and, 43-51 perception and, 65-67 reflexive vs.deliberative systems and, 51-53 Berra, Yogi, 67 bipolar disorder, 157-58 brain. See neural substrates "brain farts," 144

Brown, Derren, 2on Brown, James Cooke, 104-5 Buridan's Ass, 171-72 Bush, George W., 58, 87 Buss, David, 8

Cage, John, i34n Candid Camera (TV show), 69-70 Carr, Harvey, 22, 24 Carter, Jimmy, 91 categorization, and memory, 27-29 center embeddings, 116-18 Cheever, John, 127 children education of, 172-76 happiness of parents and, i36n temptations and, 69-70,143 choice. See decision making Chomsky, Noam, 102,114-16 Christmas Club accounts, 76 Christmas truce anecdote, 90-91 Cialdini, Robert, 80 co-articulation, 109-10,122 cognitive dissonance, 141-42 cognitive load, 145-46 computers errors and, 145,147 languages of, 103-4,113 memory stacks in, 31-32, ii9n postal-code memory and, 20-21 confirmation bias belief and, 53-55 mental illness and, 155-60 contextual memory belief and, 43-46 benefits of, 21-22,36-39 choice and, 81-84 confirmation bias and, 54-55

frequency and, 31-32,37 gist vs.detail and, 28-29,37 interference and, 25-27 liabilities of, 23-34,36 mental illness and, 156-58 priming and, 24-26 recency and, 31-34,37,45-46 recursion in language and, 116-18 refraining and, 165-66 revision and, 29-30 tricks for coping with, 34-36 contingency plans, 168 control, quest for happiness and, 131-33 correlation vs.causation, 166 Cosmides, Leda, 7 cost-benefit analysis, 169 counterfactual thinking, 165 creationism, 59n, 162-63. See also intelligent design credit cards, 85 Crick, Francis, ii5n Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 123

Dallaire, Romיo, 32n Daly, Martin, 8 Darwin, Charles, 12,162 Dawkins, Richard, 8,9-10 daydreaming, 146-47 decision making. See also rational choice theory contextual memory and, 81-84 expected utility and, 70-71,73-75, 78 moral choices and, 90-92 reaching and, 70-73 strategies for improving, 165,16872