Being Wrong - Kathryn Schulz [202]
Rahman, Abdul, 154–55, 156, 364–65n
rationalism, 202–3
“raving,” 41n
Reagan, Ronald, 7, 359n
Reason, James, 346n
reasoning. See inductive reasoning
recording-technology model of memory, 75–76
recreational travel, 292
relativism, 55–56
relief theory of humor, 323n
religious freedom, 312–14
Renouvier, Charles, 159
Republic, The (Plato), 326–28
restorative justice, 225–26
reunification and love, 261
rhubarb pie, 16, 347n
Riddick, Bill, 276–77
righteousness, 13, 163, 267, 271–72
rigidity, 199–200
Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène, 64
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 258, 382n
Rokeach, Martin, 373n
Roman Empire, 159–61
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 102, 390n
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 230
Rorty, Richard, 339
Rosenman, Sam, 230
Ross, John, 47–52, 52n, 352–53n
Roth, Phillip, 247–48
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 312
Rubin, Robert, 90
Russell, Bertrand, 86, 164
Safire, William, 175, 175n
Salem witch trials, 111–12, 131
Sally-Ann test, 100–103, 102–3n
Sands, Kenneth, 302, 305–6
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 231
Saul (later Paul), 279
Sauvages, François Boissier de, 38
Saxe, Rebecca, 102, 113, 354n, 358n, 361n
Schacter, Daniel, 354n
Scheck, Barry, 244n, 377n
school desegregation, 274–77
Schulz, Laura, 361–62n
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 371n
scientific method, 31–32, 349n. See also hypotheses
Scientific Revolution, 31–32, 34
Second Coming (Millerites), 201–10, 211–14
Sedaris, David, 177
seeing. See perception
self, 279–81, 283–89, 292–93
self-censorship, 153
self-deception, 228–33, 292–93, 375–76n, 378n
self-help books, 23, 284
self-image, 336–38
self-improvement theory of humor, 322–23
self-knowledge, 283–86. See also knowledge
self-recognition, 261, 322
senses (sensory mistakes), 47–66. See also perception
auditory illusions, 61, 63–64
tactile illusions, 61–62
September 11 terrorist attacks (2001), 72, 73, 76
Seventh-Day Adventists, 212–14, 375n
sexism, 122–23
Shakespeare, William, 261, 266
Comedy of Errors, 323–25, 331n
Hamlet, 16, 170–73, 371n
King Lear, 39–40, 172
Romeo and Juliet, 102, 390n
Sherlock Holmes, 262
shroud of Turin, 114n
Sicarii, 161n
Sidney, Philip, 322
Signs of the Times, 204
silence, 310–11
Simons, Daniel, 62
simulation theory, 381n
Six Sigma, 303–6, 387n
size constancy, 57, 61
skepticism, 70, 172
slow belief change, 184–86
“smoke and mirrors,” 63
Snow, Samuel, 204–6
social-conformity effect, 144–45
Social Contract (Rousseau), 312
“social proof,” 139
society, 133–58
Asch line studies and, 144–45, 155–56, 157
disagreement deficit and, 149–54
reliance on other people’s knowledge, 137–44
source evaluation and, 141–43
supression of dissent, 153–58
Swiss suffrage movement, 133–37, 146–48, 151
Socrates, 11, 15, 319, 326–27
Some Like It Hot (movie), 324n
source evaluation, 141–43
spectral evidence, 111–12
Speer, Albert, 131
Spinoza, Baruch, 167–68
“splitting,” 307, 307n
stakes of error, 12–13, 156–57
Stalin, Joseph, 13, 154n, 162
Star Trek, 391n
Stein, Gertrude, 328, 331
stereotypes, 122–25
Stesichorus, 7–8n
Stetson, Harlan T., 353–54n
Steven Avery Defense Fund, 226
Stevens, Wallace, 299
Stewart, Jon, 177
Stiglitz, Joseph, 90
Stoppard, Tom, 111
Story of Human Error, The (Jastrow), 30, 153–54, 349n
Stoughton, William, 111–12, 131, 362n
string theory, 83–84, 113, 141
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 125–26, 126n, 127, 167, 186, 187n, 208
subjectivity, 224, 332–33
subjunctive, 308
sudden belief changes, 186–87
Sully, James, 29, 31, 39, 53, 191, 348–49n
sunk costs, 194–96
Sunstein, Cass, 139, 139n, 314n
superiority theory of comedy, 322–23
superior (arctic) mirages, 50–52
suppression of dissent, 145, 153–57
Surowiecki, James, 139, 139n
“suspension of disbelief,” 330–31
Susskind, Leonard, 140–41
Swiss suffrage movement, 133–37, 145–48, 151, 364n, 365n
Symposium (Plato), 259, 260, 382n
Szasz, Thomas, 165n
Szymborska, Wislawa, 329–30, 330n
tactile illusions, 61–62
taxes, 159–60
teenagers, personal convictions of, 197–98, 197–98n
Telephone (game), 325
temperature inversion and mirages,