<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Montell, Amanda]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Montell, Amanda]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/calgary/rss/search?query=Montell%2C%20Amanda&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:35:12 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Wordslut]]></title><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1261002</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1261002</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1261002095</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062868879/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultish]]></title><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1384500</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1384500</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1384500095</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Language of Fanaticism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062993151/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of Magical Overthinking]]></title><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1649025</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1649025</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1649025095</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Notes on Modern Irrationality</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668007976/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of Magical Overthinking]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the bestselling author of  Cultish  and host of the podcast  Sounds Like a Cult , a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.  Utilizing the linguistic insights of her  witty and brilliant  (Blyth Roberson, author of  America the Beautiful? ) first book  Wordslut  and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit  Cultish , Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.     Magical thinking  can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in  The Age of Magical Overthinking , Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven.    In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the  Halo effect  cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger than life celebrities, to how the  Sunk Cost Fallacy  can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we've realized they're not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell's prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it."]]></description><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1651545</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1651545</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1651545095</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Notes on Modern Irrationality</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668007990/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Age of Magical Overthinking]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the bestselling author of  Cultish  and host of the podcast  Sounds Like a Cult , a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.  Utilizing the linguistic insights of her  witty and brilliant  (Blyth Roberson, author of  America the Beautiful? ) first book  Wordslut  and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit  Cultish , Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.     Magical thinking  can be broadly defined as the belief that one's internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in  The Age of Magical Overthinking , Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven.    In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the  Halo effect  cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger than life celebrities, to how the  Sunk Cost Fallacy  can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we've realized they're not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell's prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it."]]></description><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1651593</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1651593</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1651593095</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Notes on Modern Irrationality</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781797175577/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultish]]></title><description><![CDATA["The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.  What makes  cults  so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join-and more importantly, stay in-extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .  Our culture tends to provide pretty lame answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of  brainwashing.  But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear-and are influenced by-every single day.   Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities  cultish,  revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven's Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of  cultish  everywhere."]]></description><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1405781</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1405781</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1405781095</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The Language of Fanaticism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062993175/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wordslut]]></title><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1487723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1487723</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1487723095</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062868893/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultish]]></title><description><![CDATA["The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.  What makes  cults  so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we're looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join-and more importantly, stay in-extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell's argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .  Our culture tends to provide pretty lame answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of  brainwashing.  But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear-and are influenced by-every single day.   Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities  cultish,  revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven's Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of  cultish  everywhere."]]></description><link>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1411088</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S95C1411088</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Montell, Amanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1411088095</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Language of Fanaticism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063097919/MC.GIF&amp;client=calgp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>