"Don't Believe Everything You Think" by Thomas Kida.
I discovered this one several months ago. It's subtitled "The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking."
I'm a Science Channel junkie. I probably watch more science-based programming than fiction-based entertainment programming. I've seen similar material on various programs, but this brings a lot of stuff together in one place with simple explanations with lots of examples.
To whet your appetite:
The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking:
We prefer stories to statistics.
We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas.
We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.
We sometimes misperceive the world around us.
We tend to oversimplify our thinking.
We have faulty memories.
I know people don't like to believe this, but there seems to be persuasive evidence that our memories in general are not very reliable at all and that we frequently confuse things we have been told or seen on television with our own memories. It's sort of scary.
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