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Duped
- Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
- Narrado por: Scott R. Pollak
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- De: Naomi Oreskes
- Narrado por: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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Perfect Production of an Excellent Work
- De Andrew Mazibrada en 01-15-20
De: Naomi Oreskes
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Expert Political Judgment
- How Good is it? How can We Know?
- De: Philip E. Tetlock
- Narrado por: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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The intelligence failures surrounding the invasion of Iraq dramatically illustrate the necessity of developing standards for evaluating expert opinion. This audiobook fills that need. Here, Philip E. Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future.
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Five-star book, one-star reading
- De Christian Tarsney en 01-23-19
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Proving History
- Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods - not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study - can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes's Theorem. Conversely, he argues that any method that cannot be reduced to this theorem is invalid and should be abandoned.
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Good Book, Difficult Format
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De: Richard Carrier
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Mindwise
- Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
- De: Nicholas Epley
- Narrado por: Nicholas Epley
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and honestly, to other human beings. At its worst, it is a source of misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict, leading to damaged relationships and broken dreams. How good are you at knowing the minds of others?
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Finally gave up - no real point
- De Thomas en 05-12-14
De: Nicholas Epley
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Ungifted
- Intelligence Redefined
- De: Scott Barry Kaufman
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman - who was relegated to special education as a child - sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.
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Great content for the intellectually curious
- De ZestyFresh en 08-11-17
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The Great Mental Models
- General Thinking Concepts
- De: Shane Parrish
- Narrado por: Shane Parrish
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand. This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world.
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A dissapointing debut
- De Peter en 04-14-19
De: Shane Parrish
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Supernormal
- Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities
- De: Dean Radin PhD, Deepak Chopra MD
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Can yoga and meditation unleash our inherent supernormal mental powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition? Is it really possible to perceive another person's thoughts and intentions? Influence objects with our minds? Envision future events? And is it possible that some of the superpowers described in ancient legends, science fiction, and comic books are actually real, and patiently waiting for us behind the scenes? Are we now poised for an evolutionary trigger to pull the switch and release our full potentials?
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great balance of science and wisdom traditions
- De Jayne en 03-16-18
De: Dean Radin PhD, y otros
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Freedom Evolves
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments - drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy - that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally.
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I knew I was going to like this book
- De Gary en 05-30-14
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The Bilingual Brain
- And What It Tells Us About the Science of Language
- De: Albert Costa, John W. Schwieter - translator
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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How do two languages coexist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual, and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few. In The Bilingual Brain, leading expert Albert Costa explores the science of language through a wide range of cutting-edge studies and examples from South Korea to Spain and Canada.
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Brains make language and language makes brains
- De Andy P. en 08-25-20
De: Albert Costa, y otros
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The Secret Life of Pronouns
- What Our Words Say About Us
- De: James W. Pennebaker
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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We spend our lives communicating. In the last 50 years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who we are, how we think, and what we feel.
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Sticks and Stones and Words Can Really Help You
- De Lynn en 09-24-12
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Big Gods
- How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
- De: Ara Norenzayan
- Narrado por: Paul Nixon
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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How did human societies scale up from small, tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous, cooperative societies of today - even though anonymity is the enemy of cooperation? How did organized religions with "Big Gods" - the great monotheistic and polytheistic faiths - spread to colonize most minds in the world? In Big Gods, Ara Norenzayan makes the surprising and provocative argument that these fundamental puzzles about the origins of civilization are one and the same, and answer each other.
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Great read
- De paro en 02-27-24
De: Ara Norenzayan
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Entangled Minds
- Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
- De: Dean Radin PhD
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Is everything connected? Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses? Many people believe that such "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don't believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread.
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Boring as all get out but…
- De rebekah higgins en 01-12-20
De: Dean Radin PhD
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Gifts Differing
- Understanding Personality Type
- De: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers - with
- Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this audiobook distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career, and in your personal relationships.
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half/half
- De Lillianne en 03-19-19
De: Isabel Briggs Myers, y otros
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- Brian Beichner
- 09-30-21
great research book, but not light/casual reading.
it was fascinating and well written. but it reads like a text book. it is like an exceptionally interesting text for a required book for a psychology or experimental design class.
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- Dee Ramirez
- 03-07-21
Educational and ground breaking
This book is one of the most important things I’ve read. If you’re looking for pure entertainment, this isn’t the book for you. Duped is closer to a Communications text book on deception detection research than your typical informational non fiction read. If you read this book understanding that, you’ll understand its amazing value.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-11-20
fascinating book and great narration
I came to this book by way of Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" and I'm so glad I did! Dr. Levine's approach is incredibly thorough but still very accessible to a layperson like me. I was given this audiobook for free in exchange for an honest review. Speaking candidly, this is a must-listen for anyone interested in the science of deception.
Also, special shout out to the narrator-- he carries you through a lot of very complex concepts, relayed in great detail, in a way that is dynamic and compelling enough to maintain rapt interest. Very well read and well done all together.
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- 113kg
- 04-17-22
Awesome book, don’t recommend audiobook version.
The book is amazing. However, I don’t think the audio version does it justice because the reader spends a bunch of time explaining graphs and concepts that aren’t easily understood without being able to see the tables and charts.
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- Charles
- 08-10-21
Great Book,narrator needs help with numbers
every other scentence: "zero point seventy-eight", "zero point twenty-two", "zero point ninety-six" ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! , i rate the narrator zero point eleventy-seven
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- jaylyn1854
- 10-15-20
Good book - really bad narrator
I could only listen to the first chapter, the narrator sounded like a bored substitute teacher.
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- John
- 10-01-21
A well written book for a very specific audience
I loved the premise for the book, I expected to get better at delivering clear messages to those around me, while understanding when those around me might be trying to deceive me. Overall, I believe my expectations were met. There were great takeaways that will spice up coffee table conversations and reduce the urge to default to mistrust, and more critically evaluate my communications with others. However, the book reads like a textbook at times, and will require some understanding of basic statistics to fully appreciate the research discussions. The experiments were many, but puts the ownership on the reader to bridge the gap to real life application, outside of criminal confessions. I would have preferred to see more problem statements in advance of an experiment. Statements like, “How do you know if a friend is lying to you?” instead of “Experiment 14” would help connect the research to real world applications in personal and professional settings. If you have interest in the subject of deception, especially if you are an interrogator, this book will serve you well.
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- Lauren
- 07-23-23
Statistic-centered textbook, not audio-friendly.
I loved Malcom Gladwell's Talking to Strangers, and found this book through that. Make no mistake! They are NOTHING alike. I *might* be able to become engaged with this book in written form, perhaps showing the chart visuals one would normally see on research outcomes. And one *might* love this book if they can hear and remember a bunch of statistical numbers and piece together some kind of story in their head. But if I could give the "story" rating zero stars I would, because there simply doesn't seem to be anything here humans would label a story --but I'm also returning this purchase after trying desperately to get into the first 3 chapters. There are some intriguing theory titles he seems to be exploring, and the narration voice is fine, but the content is too dry for my ears.
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- RT
- 04-30-22
Thorough
Very thorough and leading edge. This book provides a very good framework on how to think about lying.
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- Mountain K9iner
- 10-11-20
A Modern Allegory of the Cave
This book enfolds two stories into one. One story is an explanation and defense of TDT — “truth-default theory” — whose starting point is that in everyday discourse we assume our fellow interlocutors are telling the truth. It is only under the pressure of evidence to the contrary that we suspect we are being told a lie. Research into lie detection based on this premise has led Levine to a number of corollaries, including that the prevailing sociological approach to lie-detection, “cue-theory,” has been barking up the wrong tree for a very long time. In short, as Levine puts it, lie detection is less like Freud (trying to read hidden thoughts off of involuntary cues) and more like Sherlock Holmes (collecting evidence from a variety of sources, including well-framed questions).
The second story is just as, if not more, interesting. It is a modern day re-telling of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. The sociological sub-discipline of deception theory has for decades been trapped in a cave of its own making: that we are awash in a sea of liars, that lie-detection is a matter of interpreting cues, and that at best we can achieve accuracy in lie detection at a rate only slightly higher than chance. In spite of, or because of, the discipline’s inability to reach anything of a consensus, researchers only dug the cave deeper trying to justify their own shadows. Levine, assisted in great part by a once student now fellow scholar, plays the role of the philosopher who discovers the light and now wants to free his fellow scholars from their self-imposed imprisonment.
What I find most intriguing, and disconcerting, about the book is how much time, dedication and sheer intellectual effort it took to make what in the end turns out to be rather common-sensical observations: we have to assume truth-telling to function as a society, and humans are not mind-readers — we need to exercise our rational powers in light of evidence to detect deception. It is rather unsettling to see how an entire field of scholarship so enveloped itself in a labyrinthian set of false assumptions that it requires this amount of research and effort to escape.
I am not a sociologist, and never even knew that this sub-discipline existed until I listened to this book, but Levine’s conclusions by and large resonate with lived experience. I think I disagree, however, with his argument that most people are truth-tellers most of time. I also don’t think that proposition is necessary for his theory. However, I want to purchase the print edition to review his arguments more carefully before committing myself to this objection. My sense is that Levine’s anthropology (his understanding of human nature) is too superficial to give a full account of how, when and why people lie. He is correct though, and students of Thomas Aquinas have known this for centuries, that when people lie they do so because they believe it will achieve something they perceive as good.
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