Mindwise : how we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want / Nicholas Epley.

  • Epley, Nicholas
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Description

An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive understanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.

Publication/Creation

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Physical description

xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contributors

Edition

First edition.

Contents

Your real sixth sense -- (Mis)reading minds. An overconfident sense ; What you can and cannot know about your own mind -- Does it have a mind? How we dehumanize ; How we anthropomorphize -- What state is another mind in? The trouble of getting over yourself ; The uses and abuses of stereotypes ; How actions can mislead -- Through the eyes of others. How, and how not, to be a better mind reader -- Being mindwise.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-228) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    BF575.E55 2014E64m
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780307595911 :
  • 0307595919