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Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite : evolution and the modular mind / Robert Kurzban.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kurzban, Robert, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modularity (Psychology).
- Evolutionary psychology.
- Self-deception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves. This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a "self" with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no "I." Instead, each of us is a contentious "we"--a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world. In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.
- Contents:
- Consistently inconsistent
- Evolution and the fragmented brain
- Who is "I"?
- Modular me
- The truth hurts
- Psychological propaganda
- Self-deception
- Self-control
- Morality and contradictions
- Morality is for the birds.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612979118
- 9781400835997
- 1400835992
- 9781282979116
- 1282979116
- OCLC:
- 702844971
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