Making Sense of People Decoding the Mysteries

Leading neuroscientist Samuel Barondes shares scientific frameworks and tools for improving your intuitions about people, and sizing them up more consciously, systematically, and successfully. He shows how to use the latest research about personality and character to get along better, choose great friends, decide whom to trust, and avoid narcissists and sociopaths.

Samuel Barondes is the Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. A leading psychiatrist and neuroscientist, he is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Mood Genes, Better Than Prozac, and the Scientific American Library title Molecules and Mental Illness. He lives in Sausalito, California.

Introduction	p. 1
Describing Personality Differences
Personality Traits	p. 7
Troublesome Patterns	p. 29
Explaining Personality Differences
How Genes Make Us Different	p. 57
Building a Personal Brain	p. 77
Whole Persons, Whole Lives
What's a Good Character?	p. 99
Identity: Creating a Personal Story	p. 123
Putting It All Together	p. 139
Endnotes	p. 151
References	p. 177
Index	p. 219
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Making Sense of People Decoding the Mysteries of Personality

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