Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mindwise

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

869739904

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Epley

Sub title

how we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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