Robert A. Burton is an American physician, novelist, nonfiction author and columnist. He has written three novels, as well as the nonfiction books On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not and A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Aeon, and Nautilus, among others. His medical career includes being the chief of the Division of Neurology at Mt. Zion UCSF, and Associate Chief of the Department of Neurosciences.Burton's website.
Burton graduated from Yale University and the University of California, San Francisco medical school, where he also completed his neurology residency. He is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.Powell's Books reference page for On Being Certain.
Bibliography
Non-fiction
Novels Doc-In-A-Box (1991) Final Therapy (1994) Cellmates (1997)
References
External links
"Psychology voting: my candidate, myself" in Salon.com "The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw. A neurologist explains why you shouldn't believe in political candidates that sound too sure of themselves". Interview with Burton in Scientific American