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

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014Copyright date: â2014Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307595911
  • 0307595919
Other title:
  • Mind wise
  • How we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4/1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575 .E55 E75 2014
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF575 .E55 E75 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001291979

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-228) and index.

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.

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.

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