Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of these traits? The young discipline of 'social cognitive neuroscience' has been exploring this fascinating interface between brain science and human behaviour since the late 1990s. Now one of its founding pioneers, Matthew D. Lieberman, presents the discoveries that he and ...
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Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of these traits? The young discipline of 'social cognitive neuroscience' has been exploring this fascinating interface between brain science and human behaviour since the late 1990s. Now one of its founding pioneers, Matthew D. Lieberman, presents the discoveries that he and fellow researchers have made. Using fMRI scanning and a range of other techniques, they have been able to see that the brain responds to social pain and pleasure the same way as physical pain and pleasure; and that unbeknown to ourselves, we are constantly 'mindreading' other people so that we can fit in with them. It is clear that our brains are designed to respond to and be influenced by others. For good evolutionary reasons, he argues, we are wired to be social. The implications are numerous and profound. Do we have to rethink what we understand by identity, and free will? How can managers improve the way their teams relate and perform? Could we organize large social institutions in ways that would work far better? And could there be whole new methods of education?
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Very interesting. Amazing research/information about the brain "at rest"
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Dec 12, 2015
I have read this book thru twice since its arrival
Matthew Lieberman has written a book that easily opens up the landscape of how our brain is innately and inherently activated to attend to our biological needs to live well in the context of our safe and secure relationships with other human beings and other animals. The revelation is that we are inheritors of mammalian evolutionary successes and we ignore these traits at our peril. Dr Lieberman is on the faculty of UCLA and can find him speaking on this topic in numerous academic lectures. When you have this book please find Iain McGilchrist's magnum opus: The Master and His Emmissary ... also on YouTube. Happy Christmas.
