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What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite / David DiSalvo.
Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."
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- ISBN: 9781616144838 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1616144831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 309 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Wray Herbert -- Introduction: Hacking the cognitive compass -- Certainty and the seduction of chance -- Drifting, discounting, and escaping -- Motivation, restraint, and regret -- Social ebbs and influential flows -- Memory and modeling -- Nothing so pure as action. |
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| Subject: | Happiness Logic Desire Neurosciences |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Blue Mountain Community College Library | 152.42 D63w (Text) | 35410000152082 | Main Collection | Available | - |
