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Impulse : why we do what we do without knowing why we do it / David Lewis.
LIBRA BF575.I46 L49 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, David, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impulse.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- "...Explores all the mystifying things people do despite knowing better, from blurting out indiscretions to falling for totally incompatible romantic partners. Informed by the latest research in neuropsychology, this eye-opening account explains why snap decisions so often govern -- and occasionally enrich--our lives." --Publisher.
- Contents:
- The impulse that saved my life
- Impulses and your zombie brain
- Inside the impulsive brain
- The teenage brain : a work in progress
- Impulse and the senses
- The power of the visual
- Impulse and the risk-taking personality
- The love impulse : 'It only takes a moment'
- The overeating impulse : digging our graves with our teeth
- The buying impulse : the how and why of what we buy
- The imitation impulse : 'A beautiful place to die'
- Deplete us not into temptation
- Free will is a grand illusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674725492
- 0674725492
- OCLC:
- 838201394
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