Take That, Malcolm Gladwell!

David McRaney heard the siren song of pop psychology, and he plays along in discord. His book You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, And 46 Other Ways Youâ??re Deluding Yourself emphasizes the ways in which people trick themselves into feeling superior, including readers who believe theyâ??re exempt from his generalizations because theyâ??re reading. And yet he makes this refrain liberating, not depressing.