A Mind of Its Own

How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

Cordelia Fine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2008
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-33163-9 (ISBN)

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"Provocative enough to make you start questioning your each and every action."—Entertainment Weekly

The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brain's tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions. Our brains employ a slew of inborn mind-bugs and prejudices, from hindsight bias to unrealistic optimism, from moral excuse-making to wishful thinking—all designed to prevent us from seeing the truth about the world and the people around us, and about ourselves.

Cordelia Fine is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne. The author of highly praised works, including Testosterone Rex, which won the Royal Society science book prize, and Delusions of Gender, she lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2011
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 211 mm
Gewicht	321 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-393-33163-6 / 0393331636
ISBN-13	978-0-393-33163-9 / 9780393331639
Zustand	Neuware