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The Mind Is Flat: the Illusion Of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind
[Paperback - 2019]
nick chater
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780241208779 | Pages: 272
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A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has blown my mind Tim Harford A total assault on all lingering psychiatric and psychoanalytic notions of mental depths ... Light the touchpaper and stand well back New Scientist We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Most of us assume that our beliefs and desires arise from the murky depths of our minds, and, if only we could work out how to access this mysterious world, we could truly understand ourselves. For more than a century, psychologists and psychiatrists have struggled to discover what lies below our mental surface. In The Mind Is Flat, pre-eminent behavioural scientist Nick Chater reveals that this entire enterprise is utterly misguided. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience, behavioural psychology and perception, he shows that we have no hidden depths to plumb, and unconscious thought is a myth. Instead, we generate our ideas, motives and thoughts in the moment. This revelation explains many of the quirks of human behaviour - for example why our supposedly firm political beliefs, personal preferences and even our romantic attractions are routinely proven to be inconsistent and changeable. As the reader discovers, through mind-bending visual examples and counterintuitive experiments, we are all characters of our own creation, constantly improvising our behaviour based on our past experiences. And, as Chater shows us, recognising this can be liberating.

About the Author

Nick Chateris Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. He founded WBS s Behavioural Science group, which is the largest of its kind in Europe, advises the UK s Behavioural Insights Team and was scientist-in-residence on the BBC Radio 4 series The Human Zoo. He is a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, and a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the British Academy. In 2019 The Mind Is Flat won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for Best Book in Clinical Psychology.

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