1957
A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
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How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.
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Dr. Brenda Major, Distinguished Professor Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara
Winner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like objects or animals instead? Why do we talk to our cars, or the stars, as if there is a mind that...
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