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La espiral de la razón: Las trampas y los mecanismos de las falsas creencias
Los procesos racionales que nos llevan a convencernos de fenómenos irracionales, al descubierto, de mano de uno de los mejores gurús en psicología cognitiva.
La desconfianza, la incredulidad o la sospecha son reacciones racionales que, combinadas con diferentes factores como el estrés, el nivel socioeconómico o la personalidad, pueden llevarnos a creer en las más disparatadas teorías y a vivir en un mundo paralelo. Dan Ariely , a partir de una experiencia personal, desentraña e ilumina los engranajes que pueden llevar a cualquier persona a rechazar la confianza en la ciencia o sus conciudadanos y sumirse en la soledad y el miedo de las conspiraciones y las convicciones infundadas. No hay esfera de nuestra vida que no esté contaminada por los altavoces de la desinformación así que entender cómo funcionan y cómo consiguen calar es fundamental para vivir el mundo que habitamos.
La desconfianza, la incredulidad o la sospecha son reacciones racionales que, combinadas con diferentes factores como el estrés, el nivel socioeconómico o la personalidad, pueden llevarnos a creer en las más disparatadas teorías y a vivir en un mundo paralelo. Dan Ariely , a partir de una experiencia personal, desentraña e ilumina los engranajes que pueden llevar a cualquier persona a rechazar la confianza en la ciencia o sus conciudadanos y sumirse en la soledad y el miedo de las conspiraciones y las convicciones infundadas. No hay esfera de nuestra vida que no esté contaminada por los altavoces de la desinformación así que entender cómo funcionan y cómo consiguen calar es fundamental para vivir el mundo que habitamos.
368 pages, Paperback
Published June 4, 2025
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Dan Ariely
64 books3,943 followersFrom Wikipedia:
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dan Ariely grew up in Israel after birth in New York. In his senior year of high school, Ariely was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While he was preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns to over 70 percent of his body.[
Ariely recovered and went on to graduate from Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day.
Ariely is the author of the book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, which was published on February 19, 2008 by HarperCollins. When asked whether reading Predictably Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could make a person's life worse (such as by defeating the benefits of a placebo), Ariely responded that there could be a short term cost, but that there would also likely be longterm benefits, and that reading his book would not make a person worse off.
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dan Ariely grew up in Israel after birth in New York. In his senior year of high school, Ariely was active in Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed, an Israeli youth movement. While he was preparing a ktovet esh (fire inscription) for a traditional nighttime ceremony, the flammable materials he was mixing exploded, causing third-degree burns to over 70 percent of his body.[
Ariely recovered and went on to graduate from Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. and M.A. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University. His research focuses on discovering and measuring how people make decisions. He models the human decision making process and in particular the irrational decisions that we all make every day.
Ariely is the author of the book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, which was published on February 19, 2008 by HarperCollins. When asked whether reading Predictably Irrational and understanding one's irrational behaviors could make a person's life worse (such as by defeating the benefits of a placebo), Ariely responded that there could be a short term cost, but that there would also likely be longterm benefits, and that reading his book would not make a person worse off.
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