Books written by Cordelia Fine
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Using findings from the latest information in developmental psychology, neuroscience and education, this book debunks the assumed differences between male and female brain function and reveals the brain's remarkable plasticity and the ...
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s last roar.” —Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe ...
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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own.
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Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
With sparkling wit and humour, Cordelia Fine attacks this ‘neurosexism’, revealing the mind’s remarkable plasticity, the substantial influence of culture on identity, and the malleability of what we consider to be ‘hardwired’ ...
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy, Testosterone Rex disproves this ingrained myth and calls for a more equal society based on both sexes’ full human potential.
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Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
... Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love,15 Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps,16 Why Men Don't Iron,17 and even Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots.18 (Straight lines are very unwelcoming, I find.) ...
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Testosteron Rex: mituri despre sex, știință și societate
... De ce bărbaţii nu calcă rufe [Why Men Don't Iron] și chiar De ce bărbaţilor le plac dungile și femeilor bulinele [Why Men Like Straight Lines and Women Like Polka Dots] . (Dungile chiar sunt foarte neatrăgătoare, după mine.) ...
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Testosterona rex: Mitos sobre sexo, ciencia y sociedad
... necesitan amor,15 Por qué los hombres no escuchan y las mujeres no entienden los mapas,16 Why Men Don't Iron [Por qué los hombres no planchan]17 e incluso Why Men like Straight Lines and Women like Polka Dots [Por qué a los hombres les.
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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
Exposing the mind's deceptions and exploring how the mind defends and glorifies the ego, Dr. Fine illustrates the brain's tendency to self-delusion, whether it be hindsight bias, wishful thinking, unrealistic optimism, or moral excuse ...
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Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different--a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too ...