TED Talks

Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

TV-PG
2010 • E4    Feb 1, 2010    15m
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

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Cast of Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

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