A Mind of it's Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

ISBN-13: 9780393331639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

Cordelia Fine

Opis

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.

O autorze

Cordelia Fine hat Experimentelle Psychologie an der Oxford University und Kriminologie an der Cambridge University studiert. Ihren Doktor in Psychologie (Kognitive Neurowissenschaften) machte sie am University College London. Zwischen 2002 und 2011 forschte und lehrte sie an der Monash University, der Australian National University und der Macquarie University in Australien. Zur Zeit ist sie ARC Future Fellow in Psychological Sciences und Assistenzprofessorin an der Melbourne Business School der University of Melbourne.