Doron Pely, PhD – Teaching Fellow, Safe Communities Institute (SCI), University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA USA

Series: Human Evolution, Biological and Cultural Domains; Psychology of Emotions, Motivations and Actions
BISAC: PSY051000; SOC026040; SCI089000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/BTSH8720

“Most of us are hard-wired to make nonsensical decisions based on nonsensical data and analysis, yet Doron Pely presents a grim picture and provides a lot of science to support it. Pely’s arguments and evidence are almost bristling for a fight, providing a superb foundation for critical thinking challenges – in class and even at home.” – David Matz, Founder and Chair (Ret.) of Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Boston

We’re a story-telling species. Stories give our lives meaning; they cause us to get up in the morning, fashion our thoughts and behavior, send us to war, to church, to the marketplace and to the workplace. Our stories become us, and we become our stories. Using a wealth of scientific evidence and real-life examples, this book illustrates how many of the stories we regularly use to explain and motivate our lives – from religion to economics, from free will to rights and privileges – often consist of myths, obfuscations, and/or outright lies – convenient, useful, but false.

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