Black-and-white thinking : the burden of a binary brain in a complex world
Dutton, Kevin, 1967-2021
Book
How the evolutionary history of the human brain explains our tendency to sort the world into black-and-white categories.
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Author:
Dutton, Kevin, 1967-, author
Edition:
First American edition.
Imprint:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.©2020.
Collation:
viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 2020 by Bantam Press, Great Britain.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The categorization instinct -- A heap of trouble -- When categories collide -- The dark side of black and white -- The viewfinder principle -- The complexity of simplicity -- The rainbow that might have been -- The frame game -- Where there's a why there's a way -- Supersuasion -- Undercover influence : the secret science of getting what you want -- Redrawing the lines -- Postscript: The wisdom of radicals.
ISBN:
9780374110345 (hardcover)
Dewey class:
302150.195
Language:
English
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BRN:
564483