The believing brain

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The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished

Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using sensory data that flow in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning, forming beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, accelerating the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop.

In The Believing Brain, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. And ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not our beliefs match reality.

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The Believing Brain

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Synthesizing thirty years of research psychologist and science historian michael shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world simply put beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow the brain shermer argues is a belief engine using sensory d Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Believing Brain

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the believing brain is a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences to explain how irrational beliefs are formed and reinforced dr leonard mlodinow author the drunkard s walk synthesizing thirty years of research psychologist and science historian michael shermer upends th Uiterlijk 14 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Science of Good and Evil

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From bestselling author michael shermer an investigation of the evolution of morality that is a paragon of popularized science and philosophy the sun baltimore a century and a half after darwin first proposed an evolutionary ethics science has begun to tackle the roots of morality just a 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 augustus 2012

Aantal pagina's: 385

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Michael Shermer

Hoofduitgeverij: St Martin's Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 32 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 37 mm

Verpakking lengte: 212 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 339 g

EAN: 9781250008800

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