The Bias That Divides Us
The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
$74.51
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
Why we don’t live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.
In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don’t live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. Our problem is not that we are unable to value and respect truth and facts but that we are unable to agree on commonly accepted truth and facts. We believe that our side kn…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262053952 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262053950 |
| Author: | Keith E. Stanovich |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Many Faces of Myside Bias
2 Is Myside Processing Irrational?
3 Myside Thinking: The Outlier Bias
4 Where Do Our Convictions Come From? Implications for Understanding Myside Bias
5 The Myside Blindness of Cognitive Elites
6 What Should We Do about Myside Bias?
Notes
References
Subject Index
Name Index
Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich is Professor Emeritus of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of What Intelligence Tests Miss, for which he received the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education, and coauthor of The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking (MIT Press). In 2012, Stanovich received the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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