The Truth Behind Fiction

If you've ever met someone who would rather make up an elaborate false answer to a question, rather than say, "I don't know", you may have experienced an example of confabulation. Confabulation happens when one fails to recognize a false answer as fantasy rather than reality. William Hirstein's latest book, Brain Fiction, looks into this phenomenon, which has been getting a lot of media attention lately.  BoingBoing's David Pescovitz encourages you to check it out in this post.