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A Mind Of Its Own – How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Cordelia Fine
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Description for A Mind Of Its Own – How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
paperback. "Provocative enough to make you start questioning your each and every action."-Entertainment Weekly Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393331639
SKU
V9780393331639
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About Cordelia Fine
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.
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