Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It

✍ Scribed by David Lewis

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Impulse explores what people do despite knowing better, along with snap decisions that occasionally enrich their lives. This eye-opening account looks at two kinds of thinking--one slow and reflective, the other fast but prone to error--and shows how our mental tracks switch from the first to the second, leading to impulsive behavior.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Impulse That Saved My Life
Chapter 2. Impulses and Your Zombie Brain
Chapter 3. Inside the Impulsive Brain
Chapter 4. The Teenage Brain – A Work in Progress
Chapter 5. Impulse and the Senses
Chapter 6. The Power of the Visual
Chapter 7. Impulses and the Risk-Taking Personality
Chapter 8. The Love Impulse – ‘It Only Takes a Moment’
Chapter 10. The Overeating Impulse – Digging Our Graves with Our Teeth
Chapter 10. The Buying Impulse – The How and Why of What We Buy
Chapter 11. The Imitation Impulse – ‘A Beautiful Place to Die’
Chapter 12. Deplete Us Not Into Temptation
Afterword: Free Will Is a Grand Illusion
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index

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