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KUOW - The power of self-deception: Why and how our brains deceive us kuow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kuow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 11, 2021 Katie Hafner THE WASHINGTON POST – Every day we tell many small untruths, lies uttered by mutual consent that keep societal interactions civil. We say “How are you today?” when we don’t really care to know, or “That was a lovely dinner” when the meal tasted terrible. Parents reproach their children for failing to supply a polite answer instead of the real one. Then there are the lies we tell ourselves. Researchers have found that patients with an optimistic outlook in the face of a terminal medical prognosis will outlive those with a realistic sense of their disease. “If you think of benevolent deception and optimistic self-deception not as vice and weakness, but as adaptive responses to difficult circumstances,” Shankar Vedantam wrote in his powerful new book, ....
There’s a fascinating tale that runs through the new book by Hidden Brain host Shankar Vedantam. It’s the true story of the Church of Love a sort of all-female commune based in Moline, Illinois, that corresponded with lonely men across the U.S., persuading them to send thousands of dollars to support a group of virginal yet lusty women attempting to build a retirement paradise called Chonda-Za. If it sounds too bizarre to be true, well, it was. The women were largely fictitious; the man cashing the checks was a former English teacher, Donald Lowry. At the time the feds swooped in to arrest Lowry on charges of mail fraud, he “owned a fleet of 20 automobiles, including Rolls Royces and Jaguars,” Vedantam writes. “He had a full-time personal mechanic.” His letter-writing enterprise took up an entire office building in downtown Moline. ....
New Books on the Brain and What It Can and Canât Do Credit.John Gall USEFUL DELUSIONS By Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler 233 pp. Norton. $27.95. Image Should we always advocate for truth? History tells us false beliefs can be dangerous, leading to genocide, racism and attacks on democracy. However, they can also bring harmony and help us thrive. Consider the health benefits of placebos or the comfort of religion. It is not the veracity, but the consequence, of a belief that makes it good or bad, Vedantam and Mesler argue. âLife, like evolution and natural selection, ultimately doesnât care about whatâs true. ....
The Power Of Self Deception: How We Fool Ourselves Can Be Both Harmful, Helpful tpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.