{"id":4471,"date":"2011-09-13T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2011-09-13T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:19:40","slug":"how-can-you-be-so-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4471","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Be So Sure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Brendan Riley (you know, the guy teaching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curragh-labs.org\/blog\/?p=6661\">zombies in popular culture course<\/a>) reviews Dr. Robert A. Burton&#8217;s book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312359209\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=0312359209\">On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You&#8217;re Not<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0312359209&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>. According to Burton, emotions determine our confidence more that rationale. Riley writes that Burton &#8220;makes a strong case for the biological weirdness of that feeling, and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curragh-labs.org\/blog\/?p=6602\">disconnection from actual knowledge<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Brendan Riley (you know, the guy teaching the zombies in popular culture course) reviews Dr. Robert A. Burton&#8217;s book, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You&#8217;re Not. According to Burton, emotions determine our confidence more that rationale. Riley writes that Burton &#8220;makes a strong case for the biological weirdness of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Can You Be So Sure?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}