Misbelief: what makes rational people believe irrational things

Demonized : an introduction that you should read even if you are the kind of person who usually skips introductions

Part I : The funnel of misbelief

How could that person believe that thing?

The funnel at work

Part II : The emotional elements and the story of stress

Pressure, stress, bending, and breaking

Picking a villain as a way to regain control

Part III : The cognitive elements and the story of our dysfunctional information-processing machinery

Our search for the truth we want to believe in

Working hard to believe what we already believe

Part IV : The personality elements and the story of our individual differences

Lessons on personality from alien abductees

An attempt to classify the role of personality in the funnel of misbelief

Part V : The social elements and the story of tribalism

Ostracism, belonging, and the social attraction of misbelief

The social accelerator

Part VI : Misbelief, trust, and the story of our future

Can we afford to trust again

and can we afford not to?

Why Superman gives me hope : a final word (not really)

Acknowledgements

References

Index.