Review: "On Being Certain" (BSP 42)
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References and Links:
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton, MD
Neisser, U., and Harsh, N. "Phantom Flashbulbs: False Recollections of Hearing the News about Challenger," in Affect and Accuracy in Recall: Studies of "Flashbulb" Memories, Winograd, E., and Neisser, U., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by Daniel L. Schacter
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Other Scientists Mentioned in this Episode:
- Leon Festinger-proposed the theory of cognitive dissonance in 1957
- Joseph Ledoux-research with rats and the role of the amygdala in the fear response
- Michael Merzenich-showed how the auditory cortex in young rats is affected by experience
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