standpoint of prediction and subjective feelings of control, to
believe that we have such access. It is frightening to believe
that no one has no more certain knowledge of the workings of
one’s own mind than would an outsider with intimate
knowledge of one’s history and of the stimuli present at the
time the cognitive process occurred.” See Richard E. Nisbett and
Timothy D. Wilson, “Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal
Reports on Mental Processes,” Psychological Review 84, no. 3
(1977): 231–259.
On the swinging rope experiment, see Norman R. F. Maier.
“Reasoning in Humans: II. The Solution of a Problem and Its
Appearance in Consciousness,” Journal of Comparative Psychology
12 (1931): 181–194.
CHAPTER THREE. THE WARREN HARDING ERROR: WHY WE FALL FOR
TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME MEN
There are many excellent books on Warren Harding, including
the following: Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove:
Warren G. Harding in His Times (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968);
Mark Sullivan, Our Times: The United States 1900–1925, vol. 6,
The Twenties (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935), 16;
Harry M. Daugherty, The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy