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Black-and-white thinking : the burden of a binary brain in a complex world

How the evolutionary history of the human brain explains our tendency to sort the world into black-and-white categories

Book  - 2021
150.19 Dut
1 copy / 0 on hold

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  • ISBN: 9780374110345
  • Physical Description 386 pages
  • Edition First American edition.
  • Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in 2020 by Bantam Press, Great Britain."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.