The Intelligence Trap

In the spirit of Daniel Kahneman, David Robson warns readers of the dangers of relying on intellectual thinking indiscriminately. As Robson explains in The Intelligence Trap, human minds are unconsciously prone to taking mental shortcuts and reverting to well-formed biases about how the world (or other people) work. Through countless startling examples of intellectual blindspots leading to social phenomena such as meta-forgetfulness, Robson cautions readers to reconsider the grounding of their well-formed views of how the world really works.