The Usefulness of Our Delusions
Rather than seek to annihilate self-deception, a better goal would be to think carefully about what it does, and ask ourselves how we can work with it.
Shankar Vedantam
Shankar Vedantam is the host and executive editor of the Hidden Brain podcast and radio show. From 2011 to 2020, he was a social science correspondent with NPR. Before that, he was a national correspondent at The Washington Post. He is the author of Hidden Brain and coauthor of Useful Delusions (with Bill Mesler).