On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done. Cass R. Sunstein

Explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.

Autorentext

Cass Sunstein is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (on leave). He was previously Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Klappentext

Sunstein uses examples from the real world and from behavioral studies to explain why certain rumors spread like wildfire, what individuals can do to avoid being misled, and what the government can do to discourage those who are out to mislead others.