Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind - Couverture souple

Kurzban, Robert O.

 
9780691154398: Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
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ISBN 10 : 0691154392 ISBN 13 : 9780691154398
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistency

We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind.

Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves.

This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a "self" with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no "I." Instead, each of us is a contentious "we"--a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world.

In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Kurzban is associate professor of psychology and founder of the Pennsylvania Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, he won the inaugural Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691154392
ISBN 13 
9780691154398
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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ISBN 10 :  0691146748 ISBN 13 :  9780691146744
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2011
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