What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite / David DiSalvo.

  • DiSalvo, David, 1970-
Date:
2011
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Description

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."

Publication/Creation

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.

Physical description

309 pages ; 23 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    BF575.H27 2011D57w
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781616144838
  • 1616144831