The self illusion : how the social brain creates identity

✍ Scribed by Hood, Hood Bruce MacFarlane

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The most wondrous organ --
The machiavellian baby --
The looking glass self --
The cost of free will --
Why our choices are not our own --
How the tribe made me --
The stories we live by --
Caught in the web --
Why you can't see your self in reflection.

✦ Subjects

Self.;Brain.;Cognition.

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