The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 4

Name: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 4
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ISBN: 9798233804700

Emotional and Social Dynamics

Henry Piironen

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English

Henry Piironen
28 February 2026

Poetry; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Cognition & cognitive psychology

Series: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion

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Why do emotions feel authoritative even when they mislead? Why do social worlds amplify fear, comparison, resentment, longing, and shame?

Volume 4: Emotional and Social Dynamics examines how feelings, relationships, expectations, and internal conflicts generate powerful but often distorted realities. Across eight expansive chapters, this volume maps emotional forecasting errors, suppression dynamics, anticipatory anxiety, stress amplification, internal contradiction, chronic dissatisfaction, self-generated suffering, and the psychological mechanics of coercive and abusive environments.

It explores how emotions become self-validating, how comparison reshapes contentment, how stress narratives escalate, how inner critics construct pain, and how social dynamics-both external and internalized-create invisible prisons of obligation, guilt, fear, and conditional worth.

Rather than treating distress as purely circumstantial, this volume reveals structured illusion systems: recursive loops of anticipation, projection, rumination, moralization, and identity fusion that intensify experience and narrow perceived possibility, exploring them through first person, cognitive order, bias or illusion forming phenomenological stanzas..

Analytical yet humane, Volume 4 expands the taxonomy of The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion into the emotional and relational sphere: where feeling becomes fact, anticipation becomes suffering, and social meaning becomes destiny.

By: Henry Piironen
Imprint: Henry Piironen
Volume: 4
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9798233804700
Series: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 28 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active