In her new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, Amanda Montell embarks on a journey to explain the cognitive biases that warp our very-online brains. From attributing the appeal of conspiratorial wellness influencers to proportionality bias to debunking the “zero sum bias” that prompts the debilitating comparisons we make on social media, Montell puts words (and real psychological concepts) to some of the most persistent angsts of the 2020s. In the excerpt below,... Read this story
