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The hidden brain

how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Vedantam, Shankar
Verfasser*innenangabe: Shankar Vedantam
Jahr: 2010
Verlag: New York, Spiegel & Grau
Mediengruppe: Buch
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Draws on recent findings to explain how the unconscious mind evolved as a survival mechanism, how it affects the outcomes of world events, and why it is responsible for many of the actions that people take in spite of their actual beliefs.
Explores the part of the human brain outside of our awareness that is responsible for many of the actions that we take in spite of our actual beliefs, drawing on recent findings to explain how the unconscious mind evolved as a survival mechanism and how it has affected the outcomes of world events.
Most of us would agree that there’s a clearâ€"and even obviousâ€"connection between the things we believe and the way we behave. But what if our actions are driven not by our conscious values and beliefs but by hidden motivations we’re not even aware of?
The “hidden brain” is Shankar Vedantam’s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional responses, and cognitive processes that happen outside our conscious awareness but have a decisive effect on how we behave. The hidden brain has its finger on the scale when we make all our most complex and important decisions: It decides whom we fall in love with, whether we should convict someone of murder, and which way to run when someone yells “Fire!” It explains why we can become riveted by the story of a single puppy adrift on the ocean but are quickly bored by a story of genocide. The hidden brain can also be deliberately manipulated to convince people to vote against their own interests, or even become suicide terrorists. But the most disturbing thing is that it does all this without our knowing.
Shankar Vedantam, author of The Washington Post’s popular €œDepartment of Human Behavior” column, takes us on a tour of this phenomenon and explores its consequences. Using original reporting that combines the latest scientific research with compulsively readable narratives that take readers from the American campaign trail to terrorist indoctrination camps, from the World Trade Center on 9/11 to, yes, a puppy adrift on the Pacific Ocean, Vedantam illuminates the dark recesses of our minds while making an original argument about how we can compensate for our blind spotsâ€"and what happens when we don’t.
 
Table of Contents
Introduction 3 (6)
The Myth of Intention
9 (15)
The Ubiquitous Shadow
24 (19)
The Hidden Brain at Work and Play
 
Tracking the Hidden Brain
43 (17)
How Mental Disorders Reveal Our Unconscious Lives
 
The Infant's Stare, Macaca, and Racist Seniors
60 (28)
The Life Cycle of Bias
 
The Invisible Current
88 (24)
Gender, Privilege, and the Hidden Brain
 
The Siren's Call
112 (26)
Disasters and the Lure of Conformity
 
The Tunnel
138 (30)
Terrorism, Extremism, and the Hidden Brain
 
Shades of Justice
168 (20)
Unconscious Bias and the Death Penalty
 
Disarming the Bomb
188 (42)
Politics, Race, and the Hidden Brain
 
The Telescope Effect
230 (27)
Lost Dogs and Genocide
 
Acknowledgments 257 (4)
Notes 261
 
 

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Verfasser*innenangabe: Shankar Vedantam
Jahr: 2010
Verlag: New York, Spiegel & Grau
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ISBN: 978-0-385-52522-0
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Beschreibung: 270 Seiten
Schlagwörter: Unterbewusstsein, Wahrnehmung, Aisthesis, Perzeption, Sensation <Philosophie>, Sensorischer Prozess, Sinnesmodalität, Sinneswahrnehmung, Sinnliche Wahrnehmung, Unterbewusstes, Wahrnehmungsprozess
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Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: Text englisch
Mediengruppe: Buch