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At a time when the news cycle turns on a tweet, journalism gets confused with opinion, and facts are treated as negotiable information, applying critical thinking skills to your social media consumption is more important than ever.Guy P. Harrison, an upbeat advocate of scientific literacy and positive skepticism, demonstrates how critical thinking can enhance the benefits of social media while giving users the skills to guard against its dangers.Social media has more than two billion users and continues to grow. Its widespread appeal as a means of staying in touch with friends and keeping up with daily news masks some serious pitfalls-- misinformation, pseudoscience, fraud, propaganda, and irrational beliefs, for example, presented in an attractive, easy-to-share form. This book will teach you how to resist the psychological and behavioral manipulation of social media and avoid the mistakes that millions have already made and now regret.Harrison presents scientific studies that show why your subconscious mind loves social media and how that can work against your ability to critically evaluate information. Among other things, social media reinforces your biases, clouds your judgment with images that leave a false impression, and fills your brain with anecdotes that become cheap substitutes for objective data. The very nature of the technology keeps you in a bubble; by tracking your preferences it sends only filtered newsfeeds, so that you rarely see anything that might challenge your set notions.Harrison explores the implications of having digital friends and the effects on mood, self-esteem, and the cultivation of friendship in the real world. He discusses how social media affects attention spans and the ability to consider issues in depth. And he suggests ways to protect yourself against privacy invasion, cyberstalking, biased misinformation, catfishing, trolls, misuse of photos, and the confusion over fake news versus credible journalism.

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Every book is a team effort and I am deeply grateful to the following people for their critical contributions to this one: Jade Zora Scibilia, Timothy Redmond, Steven L. Mitchell, Hanna Etu, Jose van Dijck, Jacob Silverman, Benjamin Radford, Sean Prophet, Catherine Roberts-Abel, Bruce Carle, Mark Hall, Jill Maxick, Cheryl Quimba, Nicole Lecht, Liz Mills, Garth Humphreys, Carrie James, Daniel K. Minto, Joshua Compton, Dean Burnett, Elke Feuer, Gerald Kane, Miki Hardisty, John Michael Strubhart, Ian Liberman, Miriam Metzger, Bo Bennett, Jake Farr-Wharton, William Poundstone, John Higginson, Kelly Frede, Leticia Bode, Leo Igwe, Maya Indira Ganesh, Kevin Hand, Frances Booth, Jeremy Kocal, Bong Manding, Brendan Nyhan, Tim Raynor, Peter Boghossian, Robert DeAngelo, Susanna Cline, Adam Alter, Angela Russell, Nathan Lee, Cameron M. Smith, and Joy Holloway-D'Avilar.

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Guy P. Harrison is a passionate advocate for science and reason. He calls the challenge of good thinking a moral issue and points to poor reasoning as humankind's great unrecognized crisis. Guy enjoys sharing his positive, constructive style of skepticism and science appreciation with people whenever possible. He has a degree in history and anthropology and has visited more than thirty countries on six continents. Having seen some of the best and worst of our world, he believes that we can do better. Guy maintains that if more people embraced critical thinking and had a better understanding of basic brain processes such as sensory perception, memory, and subconscious biases, we could eliminate a significant amount of human suffering and become much more efficient, safer, and productive as a species.

As a journalist, Guy has worked in many roles, including editorial writer, world-news editor, sports editor, reporter, feature writer, and columnist. He won the Commonwealth Award for Excellence in Journalism and the WHO (World Health Organization) Award for Health Reporting. Guy has also interviewed many leading scientists and significant historical figures. He has written about many diverse topics, including poverty in the developing world, conservation issues, religion, war, racism, gender discrimination, space exploration, and human origins.

Although he says he's an introvert, Guy never misses a chance to spread science and reason with others. He has been a guest on more than one hundred radio shows and podcasts and was a featured speaker at a science festival in New Zealand and at a Random House conference in San Diego, California.

Guy is the author of six previous books that have been popular with readers and highly acclaimed by critics. They are: Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser; Think: Why You Should Question Everything; 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian; 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True; 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God; and Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity. Random House selected Think as part of its national First Year Experience/Common Reads program, which promotes it as recommended reading for first-year university students.

Guy is a lifelong fan not only of science and history but also of science fiction. He says he's not ashamed to confess his deep love for robot uprisings, time machines, and interstellar travel. He lives in Southern California, where he enjoys running, hiking, biking, and writing.

Guy is also an expert blogger for Psychology Today. Read his essays at About Thinking, www.psychologytoday.com/blog/about-thinking. Visit his website at www.guypharrison.com.

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