David Robson

The Intelligence Trap collects the research on why clever people make specific, predictable errors: motivated reasoning, earned dogmatism, the confidence that comes from being right often enough to stop checking.

Robson writes for the BBC and New Scientist and is careful with the studies, flagging where replication is shaky rather than presenting everything as settled. The Expectation Effect went on to placebo, nocebo and how belief measurably alters physiology.

He is at his best explaining why intelligence and rationality are not the same measurement.