About This Book
The cognitive biases that once helped us survive are now making us anxious, irrational, and chronically online.
Amanda Montell explores how the internet has overloaded our brain's coping mechanisms — turning magical thinking, the halo effect, the sunk cost fallacy, and other biases into everyday sources of bad decisions. She blends sharp cultural criticism with personal narrative and surprising research.
The Age of Magical Overthinking is for anyone who has ever wondered why smart people believe irrational things — and suspects they might be one of them.