2025년 12월 3일

이번 선정 도서는 "집단 망상" 입니다.

What drove you to write a book about false beliefs now?

Pierre: Occasionally, you’ll see headlines like, “America is Suffering from Mass Delusion,” or likening some people to “cult members” based on political beliefs. Popular portrayals of those who believe misinformation often imply there’s something wrong with the individual: They’re mentally ill, they’re stupid, they’re “brainwashed.”

In my book, I emphasize that it’s not just individual factors that are to blame for false beliefs. It’s the world we live in today. It’s the way we interact with information.

You’ve coined the term “confirmation bias on steroids” to explain our present moment. What do you mean?

Pierre: When I was a kid in the ’70s, searching for information, I’d go to the library and pick out a book or consult an encyclopedia. Today, we get on our cell phones and type a question into a search engine, but search and social media algorithms are programmed to give us information based on our previous searches. If you and I conduct a Google search using the exact same terms, we’ll get different results based on our previous experiences.

Confirmation bias is something our brains do: We’re already biased towards information that we want to see, but the algorithms we use to search for information today are also geared towards reinforcing the things we believe — it’s a double whammy. So that’s why, I argue in my book, that today we’re susceptible to “confirmation bias on steroids.”

부분 발췌: UCSF Research (2025.07.29), “Why Smart People Fall for False Information and What to do About It”, By Laura López González, 원본링크

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집단 망상

잘못된 믿음은 어떻게 만들어지는가

False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things that Aren't True

Book by Joe Pierre

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모임날짜: 01/26/2026 (월)

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First question a psychiatrist should ask themselves after a patient's string of unsuccessful antidepressant trials isn't what to try next for "refractory depression," but whether they're really treating "depression" and medications are really the answer.

출처: Joe Pierre, MD, @psychunseen (2023.05.24), “False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things that Aren't True” [X post], 원본링크

The Politicization and Harm of False Beliefs

False beliefs always carry at least the potential for harm. While some are relatively innocuous (like the claim that the Earth is flat), others—like those related to vaccines and climate change—can prove to be deadly. In between those two extremes, false beliefs stemming from disinformation can be used to further erode trust in reliable sources of information, fuel support of anti-establishment demagogues, and incite people to back anti-democratic political movements.

부분발췌: Joe Pierre (2025.08.28) “Suicide by False Belief,” Politics and Rights Review, 원본 링크