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What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite / David DiSalvo.
LIBRA BF575.H27 D57 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DiSalvo, David, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness.
- Logic.
- Desire.
- Neurosciences.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."
- Contents:
- Forward / Wray Herbert
- Introduction: Hacking the cognitive compass
- Certainty and the seduction of chance
- Drifting, discounting, and escaping
- Motivation, restraint, and regret
- Social ebbs and influential flows
- Memory and modeling
- Nothing so pure as action.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781616144838
- 1616144831
- OCLC:
- 726821376
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