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(0)Dean Burnett
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Entertaining...[A] grand tour around modern cognitive science and psychology." —Wall Street Journal
The brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of human experience. But it's also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out of date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in front of us,
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Examines cutting edge theories on the science of emotion and interviews with people presumed to be "happy" to investigate where happiness comes from, why humans need it so much, and what it has to do with the human brain.
"Neuroscientist Dean Burnett dives into the squishy science and bubbly feelings of what happiness means. The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life. It's what drives us to get a job, fall...