A review by theciz
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier

challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

An interesting book about gullibility and trust - how these mechanisms work in human societies and challenging some common myths about crowd behaviour, credibility, the influence of social media, etc. I can’t quite take as optimistic a view as Mercier does, but there’s a lot of well reasoned arguments, and a lot to think about. This is pop psychology, but doesn’t suffer for it. Will be interesting to pick Canetti back up after this.