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Book · 2022

Collective Illusions

by Todd Rose · Recommended by 2 people on 3 podcasts

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The name of the book is Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022 Listen at 1:33:25

What they say about it

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The best things said about it

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Discussed
Todd Rose's book Collective Illusions, he's the one on my show saying like maybe your views aren't so minority maybe they are majority because people are afraid to espouse them.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022
Discussed
Collective illusions which are basically social lies and it's fascinating.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022
Discussed
He wrote a whole book about how people sort of naturally go along with the group mentality, it's a human instinct to want to belong to the group.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2022

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Why people recommend it

Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions by Todd Rose explores the psychological and social mechanisms that drive people to suppress their true beliefs in order to conform to perceived group norms. The book was discussed and recommended across multiple episodes of The Megyn Kelly Show, The Mel Robbins Podcast, and The Daily Stoic. On Megyn Kelly's show, host Megyn Kelly interviewed Todd Rose and highlighted the book's exploration of social lies and the human instinct to follow group mentality, noting how the work validates individuals who feel afraid to voice their true opinions against a vocal minority. Mel Robbins also recommended Collective Illusions and interviewed Rose on her podcast, praising his background at the Harvard School of Education and using the concept of collective illusions to analyze data surrounding human behavior, personal desires, and societal expectations. Throughout these discussions, the book was lauded for shedding light on the hidden consensus of everyday people and explaining why individuals routinely participate in behaviors they privately disagree with, offering readers a scientific framework for overcoming social pressure and groupthink.

Every mention

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Megyn Kelly the name of the book is collective illusions conformity complicity and the science of why we make bad decis… 5
Discussed
“um last week who was he wrote a whole book about how people sort of naturally go along with the group mentality it's a human instinct to want to belong to the group”
Discussed
“todd rose's book collective illusions he's the one on my show saying like maybe your views aren't so minority maybe they are majority because people are afraid to espouse them”
Discussed
“now before we get on to collective illusions which are basically social lies and it's fascinating”
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“it's collective illusions conformity complicity and the signs of why we make bad decisions the outrage mob that takes people down on twitter online”
Recommended
“the name of the book is collective illusions conformity complicity and the science of why we make bad decisions”
Mel Robbins He wrote this book called Collective Illusions. He was a professor of education at the Harvard School of Ed… 2
Recommended
“He wrote this book called Collective Illusions. He was a professor of education at the Harvard School of Education.”
Discussed
“One of the terms I'd love to have you talk a little bit about is this uh term collective illusions. It's the title of your best-selling book.”

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“So where I want to start is you write a lot in your bestselling book, Collective Illusions, about the fact that we are fundamentally wired to conform.”

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