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- Oliver, Tom, author.
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020
- Description
- Book — 294 pages ; 24 cm
- Summary
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We like to believe that we exist as independent selves at the centre of a subjective universe; that we are discrete individuals acting autonomously in the world with an unchanging inner self that persists throughout our lifetime. This is an illusion. On a physical, psychological and cultural level, we are all much more intertwined than we know: we cannot use our bodies to define our independent existence because most of our 37 trillion cells have such a short lifespan that we are essentially made anew every few weeks; the molecules that make up our bodies have already been component parts of countless other organisms, from ancient plants to dinosaurs; we are more than half non-human, in the form of bacteria, fungi and viruses, whose genes influence our moods and even manipulate our behaviour; and we cannot define ourselves by our minds, thoughts and actions, because these mainly originate from other people - the result of memes passing between us, existing before, after and beyond our own lifespans. Professor of Ecology Tom Oliver makes the compelling argument that although this illusion of individualism has helped us to succeed as a species, tackling the big global challenges ahead now relies on our seeing beyond this mindset and understanding the complex connections between us. THE SELF DELUSION is an explosive, powerful and inspiring book that brings to life the overwhelming evidence contradicting the perception we have of ourselves as independent beings - and why understanding this may well be the key to a better future.
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- Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- author.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Description
- Book — xi, 297 pages ; 25 cm
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- Prologue : One bright May morning 3 May 1983 : Hollywood Hills
- Cactus mysteries 2000 BCE-present : Andean South America
- The Devil's root : 1519-present : Mexico
- Making medicine 1880-93 : Oklahoma, Texas, Detroit, Berlin
- Brilliant visions : 1895-98 : Washington DC, Philadelphia, Leipzig, London
- Higher powers : 1899-1918 : London, Utah, New York, Taos, Oklahoma
- Der meskalinrausch :1919-28 : Vienna, Heidelberg, Chicago, Côte d'Azur
- Profane illuminations : 1929-36 Warsaw, Bucharest, Paris, Berlin, Mexico
- M-substance : 1936-52 : Oklahoma, Taos, London, Hamburg, Basel, Saskatchewan
- The doors blown open : 1953-59 : California, Wisconsin, Mexico, Paris, Atlantic City, Oxford
- Tripping with mescalito : 1960-2014 : New York, California, Texas, Arizona, Las Vegas
- Epilogue : under a Comanche Moon : 7-8 October 1917 : Oklahoma.
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BF209 .M4 J39 2019 | Unknown |
- Zaki, Jamil, 1980- author.
- First edition. - New York : Crown, [2019]
- Description
- Book — 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, and shows how we can expand our circle of care, even in these divisive times Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren't just like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States is suffering from an "empathy deficit." Since then, things only seem to have gotten worse. It doesn't have to be this way. In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki argues that empathy is not a fixed trait--something we're born with or not--but rather a skill that we can all strengthen through effort. Drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, Zaki shows how we can harness this new mindset to overcome toxic cultural divisions. He also tells the stories of people who are living these principles--fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. We meet a former neo-Nazi who is now helping extract people from hate groups, ex-prisoners discussing novels with the judge who sentenced them, Washington police officers changing their culture to decrease violence among their ranks, and NICU nurses fine-tuning their empathy so that they don't succumb to burnout. Written with clarity and passion, The War for Kindness is an inspiring call to action. The future of our society may depend on whether we accept the challenge"-- Provided by publisher.
"A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, revealing it to be a skill, not a fixed trait, and showing, through science and stories, how we can all become more empathetic"-- Provided by publisher.
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BF575 .E55 Z35 2019 | Unknown |
4. The personality brokers : the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing [2018]
- Emre, Merve author.
- First edition. - New York : Doubleday, [2018]
- Description
- Book — xxii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- The cosmic laboratory of baby training
- Women's work
- Meet yourself
- An unbroken series of successful gestures
- Desperate amateurs
- The science of man
- The personality is political
- Sheep and buck
- A perfect spy
- People's capitalism
- The house party approach to testing
- That horrible woman
- The synchronicity of life and death
- One in a million
- True believers.
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BF698.8 .M94 E56 2018 | Unknown |
- Murray, Elisabeth A., author.
- First edition. - Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — xvii, 496 pages, 6 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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- PART I. FOUNDATIONS OF MEMORY SYSTEMS-- PART II. ARCHITECTURE OF VERTEBRATE MEMORY-- PART III. PRIMATE AUGMENTATIONS-- PART IV. HOMININ ADAPTATIONS-- PART V. DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY SYSTEMS.
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BF371 .M78 2017 | Unknown |
- Samarbete. English
- Lindenfors, Patrik, author.
- Cham : Springer, [2017]
- Description
- Book — viii, 172 pages ; 25 cm
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- The Human Puzzle The breakdown of self Cooperation and life LifeYour physical self Genes Simple cells - prokaryotes 17 More complex cells - eukaryotes 18 Multi-cellularity 20 Mobile eco-systems 24Your psychological self 27 A soulless existence 29 Majority rule 31 Surely there is something more? 31Easily explicable cooperation and natural selection 35 Mutual gain 36 Natural selection 38 Proximate and ultimate explanations 41 Group selection 42 Behavioral genetics 43Family 46 Warning calls 50 Eusociality - ants, wasps and bees 51 A challenge 54 Eusociality - termites and naked mole rats 57 Kin selection in humans 58Friends 61 The prisoners' dilemma 61 Examples from the animal world? 65 The social brain 69 Other possible genetic explanations of cooperation 71 We are not them: about our closest relatives 73 Reciprocity in humans 75Humanity - the paragon of cooperation? 78 Games of cooperation 81 A huge mistake? 83 Cultural group selection 85 Nature or nurture 86 Cultural explanations for extreme cooperation 89Language 95 The structure of human language 98 The evolution of language 99 The green beards of language 102 The second replicator 105The last piece of the puzzle? - Cooperation over our heads 108< A slow history 111 Cultural evolution 116 Cultural evolutionary explanations of cooperation 125 Networks 127 The software 130Epilogue: The human super organism 133 Characteristics of synergistic cooperation 136 How to harness idea collectives 137References 140Notes 148.
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BF637 .H4 L5613 2017 | Unknown |
- Richardson, Ken, author.
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Description
- Book — xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Preface
- 1. Pinning Down Potential
- 2. Pretend Genes
- 3. Pretend Intelligence
- 4. Real Genes, Real Intelligence
- 5. Intelligent Development
- 6. How the Brain Makes Potential
- 7. A Creative Cognition
- 8. Potential Between Brains: Social Intelligence
- 9. Human Intelligence
- 10. Promoting Potential
- 11. The Problems of Education Are Not Genetic
- 12. Summary and Conclusions Notes Index.
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BF431 .R412 2017 | Unknown |
- Alda, Alan, 1936- author.
- New York : Random House, [2017]
- Description
- Book — xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Relating : it's the cake
- Theater games with engineers
- The heart and head of communication
- The mirror exercise
- Observation games
- Making it clear and vivid
- Reading minds : Helen Riess and Matt Lerner
- Teams
- Total listening starts with where they are
- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom
- Training doctors to have more empathy
- My life as a lab rat
- Working alone on building empathy
- Dark empathy
- Reading the mind of the reader
- Teaching and the flame challenge
- Emotion makes it memorable
- Story and the brain
- Commonality
- Jargon and the curse of knowledge
- The improvisation of daily life.
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BF637 .C45 A424 2017 | Unknown |
- Fine, Cordelia author.
- First edition. - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
- Description
- Book — 266 pages ; 25 cm
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- Flies of fancy
- One hundred babies?
- A new position on sex
- Why can't a woman be more like a man?
- Skydiving wallflowers
- The hormonal essence of the T-rex?
- The myth of the Lehman sisters
- Vale rex.
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BF692 .F525 2017 | Unknown |
- Abrahams, Matt.
- Third edition. - Dubuque, IA : Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, [2016]
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- Book — xi, 164 pages ; 18 cm
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BF575 .A6 A27 2016 | Unavailable In transit |
- Britton, Ronald.
- 1st ed. - London : Karnac Books, 2015.
- Description
- Book — 141 p. ; 23 cm
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This book begins with an exploration of the relationship between mind and brain. It then examines various psychoanalytic models of the mind and moves to the task of the analyst to discover the unconscious models that shape his or her patients' picture of him/herself and others.The familiar models are mainly drawn from psychoanalytic practice but are supplemented from myths, religion, and literature. Developments in adjacent scientific fields such as quantum biology and new ideas about evolution are discussed that suggest cellular genetic modification can take place as a consequence of interaction with the outside world. This gives hope perhaps to the idea that not only the mind can learn from experience but also the brain.
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BF173 .B8242 2015 | Unknown |
- Buss, David M.
- Fifth edition. - Boston : Pearson, [2015]
- Description
- Book — xx, 476 pages ; 28 cm
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- PART ONE - FOUNDATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- Chapter 1. The Scientific Movements Leading to Evolutionary Psychology
- Chapter 2. The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology PART TWO - PROBLEMS OF SURVIVAL
- Chapter 3. Combating the Hostile Forces of Nature: Human Survival Problems PART THREE - CHALLENGES OF SEX AND MATING
- Chapter 4. Women's Long-Term Mating Strategies
- Chapter 5. Men's Long-Term Mating Strategies
- Chapter 6. Short-Term Sexual Strategies PART FOUR - CHALLENGES OF PARENTING AND KINSHIP
- Chapter 7. Problems of Parenting
- Chapter 8. Problems of Kinship PART FIVE - PROBLEMS OF GROUP LIVING
- Chapter 9. Cooperative Alliances
- Chapter 10. Aggression and Warfare
- Chapter 11. Conflict between the Sexes
- Chapter 12. Status, Prestige, and Social Dominance PART SIX - AN INTEGRATED PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
- Chapter 13. Toward a Unified Evolutionary Psychology.
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This book examines human psychology and behavior through the lens of modern evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary Psychology: The Ne w Science of the Mind, 5/e provides students with the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology, and applies them to empirical research on the human mind. Content topics are logically arrayed, starting with challenges of survival, mating, parenting, and kinship; and then progressing to challenges of group living, including cooperation, aggression, sexual conflict, and status, prestige, and social hierarchies. Students gain a deep understanding of applying evolutionary psychology to their own lives and all the people they interact with.
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BF698.95 .B87 2015 | Unknown |
- McGonigal, Kelly
- New York : Avery, a member of Penguin Random House, [2015]
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- Book — xxiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
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- Part 1: Rethink stress. How to change your mind about stress ; Beyond fight-or-flight ; A meaningful life is a stressful life
- Part 2: Transform stress. What does it mean to be good at stress? ; Engage : how anxiety helps you rise to the challenge ; Connect : how caring creates resilience ; Grow : how adversity makes you stronger ; Final reflections.
"More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph. D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating that stress can, in fact, make us stronger, smarter, and happier--if we learn how to embrace it"-- Provided by publisher.
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BF575 .S75 M394 2015 | Unknown |
- Stoknes, Per Espen, author.
- White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2015]
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- Book — xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- Introduction : battering one another
- The psychology of climate paradox
- "Climate is the new Marx": the many faces of skepticism and denial
- The human animal, as seen by evolutionary psychology
- How climate facts and risks are perceived : cognitive psychology
- What others are saying : social psychology
- The roots of denial : the psychology of identity
- The five psychological barriers to climate action
- From barriers to solutions
- The power of social networks
- Reframing the climate messages
- Make it simple to choose right
- Use the power of stories to re-story climate
- New signals of progress
- The air's way of being
- Stand up for your depression!
- Climate disruption as symptom : what is it trying to tell us?
- Re-imagining climate as the living air
- It's hopeless and I'll give it my all.
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BF353.5 .C55 S76 2015 | Unknown |
- Leslie, Ian author.
- New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
- Description
- Book — xxiv, 216 pages ; 25 cm
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- Introduction: The Fourth Drive Part One: How Curiosity Works
- 1. Three Journeys
- 2. How Curiosity Begins
- 3. Puzzles and Mysteries Part Two: The Curiosity Drive
- 4. Three Ages of Curiosity
- 5. The Curiosity of Dividend
- 6. The Power of Questions
- 7. The Importance of Knowing Part Three: Staying Curious
- 8. Seven Ways to Stay Curious Afterword: Bjarni.
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Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we're able feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actually becoming more curious? Absolutely not. In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true curiosity the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We confuse ease of access to information with curiosity, and risk losing our ability to ask questions that extend our knowledge gap rather than merely filling it. Worst of all, this decline in curiosity has led to a decline in empathy and our ability to care about those around us.Combining the latest science with an urgent call to cultivate curious minds, Curious draws on psychology, social history, and popular culture to show that being deeply curious is our only hope when it comes to solving current crises as well as an essential part of being human.
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BF323 .C8 L447 2014 | Unknown |
- Raeburn, Paul, author.
- First edition. - New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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- Book — 272 pages ; 22 cm
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- Introduction : cleaning out the attic
- The roots of fatherhood : pygmies, finches, and famine
- Conception : the genetic tug-of-war
- Pregnancy : hormones, depression, and the first fight
- Fathers in the lab : of mice and men
- Infants : sculpting fathers' brains
- Children : language, learning, and Batman
- Teenagers : absence, puberty, and faithful voles
- Older fathers : the rewards and risks of waiting
- What fathers do
- Afterword: fathers matter.
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- Carey, Benedict, author.
- First edition. - New York : Random House, [2014]
- Description
- Book — xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Broaden the margins
- Basic theory. The story maker : the biology of memory ; The power of forgetting : a new theory of learning
- Retention. Breaking good habits : the effect of context on learning ; Spacing out : the advantage of breaking up study time ; The hidden value of ignorance : the many dimensions of testing
- Problem solving. The upside of distraction : the role of incubation in problem solving ; Quitting before you're ahead : the accumulating gifts of percolation ; Being mixed up : interleaving as an aid to comprehension
- Tapping the subconscious. Learning without thinking : harnessing perceptual discrimination ; You snooze, you win : the consolidating role of sleep
- The foraging brain
- Appendix. Eleven essential questions.
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BF318 .C366 2014 | Unknown |
- Ouellette, Jennifer.
- New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
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- Book — xvi, 348 pages ; 20 cm
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"A fascinating survey of the forces that shape who we are and how we act-from the author of The Calculus Diaries Following her previous tours through the worlds of physics (Black Bodies and Quantum Cats) and calculus (The Calculus Diaries), acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette now turns her attention to the mysteries of human identity and behavior with Me, Myself, and Why. She draws on genetics, neuroscience, and psychology-enlivened as always with her signature sense of humor and pop-culture references-to explore how we become who we are. Ouellette lets readers in on her own surprising journey of self-discover, as she has her genome sequenced, her brain mapped, her personality typed, and even samples a popular hallucinogen. Bringing together everything from Mendel's famous pea plant experiments and mutations in The X-Men to our taste in food and our relationship with avatars and our online selves, Ouellette delivers another fun and enlightening work of popular science that's sure to be enjoyed by her many fans"--Provided by publisher.
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BF697 .Q778 2014 | Unknown |
- Epley, Nicholas, author.
- First edition. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
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- Book — xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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BF575 .E55 E65 2014 | Unknown |
- Bernstein, W. M. author.
- London : Karnac, 2014.
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- Book — xxxi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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BF161 .B479 2014 | Unknown |