Hidden Brain How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

Name: Hidden Brain How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
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ISBN: 9780385525213

ISBN-10: 0385525214

ISBN-13: 9780385525213

Edition: 2009

Authors: Shankar Vedantam

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The hidden brainis Shankar Vedantamrsquo;s shorthand for a host of brain functions, emotional responses, and cognitive processes that happen outside of our conscious awareness, but that have a decisive effect on how we behave. The hidden brain has its finger on the scale when we make all of our most complex and important decisions it decides who we fall in love with, whether we should convict someone of murder, or which way to run when someone yells ldquo;fire!rdquo; It explains why we can become riveted by the story of a single puppy adrift on an ocean but are quickly bored by a story of genocide. The hidden brain can also be deliberately manipulated to vote against their interest, or…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Publication date: 1/19/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Introduction



The Myth of Intention



The Ubiquitous Shadow


The Hidden Brain at Work and Play



Tracking the Hidden Brain


How Mental Disorders Reveal Our Unconscious Lives



The Infant's Stare, Macaca, and Racist Seniors


The Life Cycle of Bias



The Invisible Current


Gender, Privilege, and the Hidden Brain



The Siren's Call


Disasters and the Lure of Conformity



The Tunnel


Terrorism, Extremism, and the Hidden Brain



Shades of Justice


Unconscious Bias and the Death Penalty



Disarming the Bomb


Politics, Race, and the Hidden Brain



The Telescope Effect


Lost Dogs and Genocide


Acknowledgments


Notes