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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 We have a sixth sense that allows us to understand the minds of others, and it works quickly and effortlessly. However, it is not always accurate.
#2 To get a sense of your actual abilities, let’s start with what is likely to be a very common and important bit of mind reading: trying to guess another person’s impression of you.
#3 The good news is that you probably have a good sense of how others evaluate you on average. The bad news is that you have no idea who likes you and who doesn’t, or how much others like you or dislike you.
#4 The central challenge for your sixth sense is that others’ inner thoughts are revealed only through the façade of their faces, bodies, and language. People have evolved the ability to use cues from that façade to see what lies beneath, but they have also developed a skill to use their façade to mislead and misdirect others.

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Cognitive Psychology

Sociologie, société et politique

Psychology

Cognition

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	17 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822511651
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

We have a sixth sense that allows us to understand the minds of others, and it works quickly and effortlessly. However, it is not always accurate.

#2

To get a sense of your actual abilities, let’s start with what is likely to be a very common and important bit of mind reading: trying to guess another person’s impression of you.

#3

The good news is that you probably have a good sense of how others evaluate you on average. The bad news is that you have no idea who likes you and who doesn’t, or how much others like you or dislike you.

#4

The central challenge for your sixth sense is that others’ inner thoughts are revealed only through the façade of their faces, bodies, and language. People have evolved the ability to use cues from that façade to see what lies beneath, but they have also developed a skill to use their façade to mislead and misdirect others.

#5

It is easy to see how understanding other people can be a daunting task if you are unable to tell when they are misleading you and when they are not.

#6

The mind reading of close friends and loved ones is far superior to that of strangers, but the confidence you have in knowing the mind of a close friend or romantic partner far outstrips your actual accuracy.

#7

The more time two people spend together, the more they believe they know about each other, but the more overconfidence they have. This overconfidence increases in proportion to how long two people have been together.

#8

The main goal of this book is to reduce your illusion of insight into the minds of others, both by trying to improve your understanding and by inducing a greater sense of humility about what you know and what you don’t know about others.

#9

The first psychology laboratory ever established in the United States was set up using introspection as the basis of all of psychology. But is our confidence in introspection justified.

#10

The journey to discover how well you can read your own mind began in a beat-up station wagon driven nearly ten thousand miles by a Stanford sociologist named Richard LaPiere. He visited 184 restaurants and 67 hotels, and asked every clerk if they would accept members of the Chinese race as guests. Only once did they actually refuse service.

#11

The disconnect between what people think about themselves and how they actually behave is demonstrated by the many studies that have found a significant gap between how people think they will behave and how they actually do.

#12

When you think one thing about yourself and the truth is another, you are failing to recognize your brain’s mistakes. You are unable to recognize your own mistakes because you are unaware of the processes your brain went through to construct those final products.

#13

The human mind is a house, and its construction is hidden from view. Some interior walls have brick behind the drywall instead of wooden studs. There is a steel beam in one wall, and a hidden walkway behind a cement wall in the basement.

#14

The human brain is not like an iceberg; it’s like a house. We are consciously aware of finished mental products, from sensory experiences of pain and pleasure to feelings of control and free will. But we can only guess at what’s going on inside our heads to construct those conscious experiences.

#15

Your brain has a third of its neurons dedicated to vision because the waves of light you take in are so ambiguous that your brain has to do a lot of constructive work to produce a sensory image.

#16

Your brain’s associative network is made up of neurons that are connected to each other in a pattern that reflects how often they are activated together. The more often two neurons are activated together, the stronger their connection becomes.

#17

The feeling of attraction is a clear example of how our brain’s associative networks help us survive.