The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 5: Social Interaction Illusions

How much of modern social life is performance? How much of public belief is engineered, amplified, filtered, or sold?

Volume 5: Social Interaction Illusions maps the distortions that arise wherever people gather: online, in institutions, in political discourse, in markets of belief, and inside identity-driven communities. Across twelve expansive chapters, this volume examines performative self-presentation, expression policing, rumor contagion, justice narratives, virtue exploitation, compli...