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Editor Gary Marcus has carefully selected brief readings, mostly from popular trade books, that are both relevant and interesting to the introductory student.

Acknowledgments

xi

Preface

xiii

Pioneers

1

(17)

From The Principles of Psychology

3

(9)

William James

From The Unconscious

12

(6)

Sigmund Freud

Methods

18

(20)

From How to Lie with Statistics

20

(7)

Darrell Huff

From How to Think Straight about Psychology

27

(11)

Keith Stanovich

Evolution and Genes

38

(19)

From How the Mind Works

39

(6)

Steven Pinker

From The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Create the Complexities of Human Thought

45

(12)

Gary Marcus

The Brain

57

(23)

From Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

58

(12)

Antonio R. Damasio

From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

70

(10)

Oliver Sacks

Sensation and Perception

80

(16)

From Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

81

(10)

Donald D. Hoffman

From Sensory Exotica: A World beyond Human Experience

91

(5)

Howard C. Hughes

Language

96

(19)

From The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

97

(11)

Steven Pinker

From The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar

108

(7)

Mark C. Baker

Learning

115

(30)

Conditioned Emotional Reactions

117

(12)

John B. Watson

Rosalie Rayner

A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior

129

(8)

Noam Chomsky

From Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think

137

(8)

Marc D. Hauser

Cognitive Development

145

(19)

From The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn

146

(8)

Alison Gopnik

Patricia Kuhl

Andrew Meltzoff

From Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human

154

(10)

Paul Bloom

Memory and Cognition

164

(23)

From Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past

165

(12)

Daniel L. Schacter

From The Illusion of Conscious Will

177

(10)

Daniel M. Wegner

Intelligence

187

(22)

From The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

188

(11)

Richard J. Herrnstein

Charles Murray

From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

199

(10)

Daniel Goleman

Motivation and Stress

209

(23)

From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

210

(13)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

From Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

223

(9)

Robert M. Sapolsky

Emotion

232

(31)

From The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

233

(12)

Joseph LeDoux

From Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

245

(10)

Paul Ekman

From Woman: An Intimate Biography

255

(8)

Natalie Angier

Social Psychology

263

(19)

From Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

265

(8)

Robert B. Cialdini

From The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is Essential to Who We Are and How We Live

273

(9)

Shelley Taylor

Personality

282

(35)

From Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature

283

(8)

Jerome Kagan

From The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

291

(13)

Judith Rich Harris

Personality Plus

304

(13)

Malcolm Gladwell

Culture

317

(25)

From Human Universals

318

(12)

Donald E. Brown

From The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why

330

(5)

Richard E. Nisbett

From Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

335

(7)

Peter J. Richerson

Robert Boyd

Disorders

342

(23)

From A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

343

(6)

Sylvia Nasar

From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

349

(9)

Kay Redfield Jamison

From Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism

358

(7)

Temple Grandin

Treatment

365

(22)

From Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self

366

(14)

Peter D. Kramer

From Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

380

(7)

Aaron T. Beck

Permissions Acknowledgments

387

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