Chapter 6. Dysrationalia: Why So Many Smart People Do So Many Dumb Things

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
5. Chapter 1. Staring into the Darwinian Abyss 1
6. Chapter 2. A Brain at War with Itself 31
7. Chapter 3. The Robot’s Secret Weapon 81
8. Chapter 4. The Biases of the Autonomous Brain: Characteristics of the Short-Leash Mind that Sometimes Cause Us Grief 95
9. Chapter 5. How Evolutionary Psychology Goes Wrong 131
10. Chapter 6. Dysrationalia: Why So Many Smart People Do So Many Dumb Things 149
11. Chapter 7. From the Clutches of the Genes into the Clutches of the Memes 173
12. Chapter 8. A Soul without Mystery: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin 207
13. Notes 277
14. References 305
15. Author Index 345
16. Subject Index 355