Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it happens in gradual stages that can be powerfully influenced along the way. This book provides insights that can broaden our horizons and shape our lives.
An expansive, big-hearted journalistic narrative, HOW MINDS CHANGE reaches surprising and thought-provoking conclusions, to demonstrate the rare but transformative circumstances under which minds can change.
The most important proximal cause of this book was a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, supported by a fellowship from the Spencer Foundation (grant no. 19940032). The Spencer Foundation seems ...
No better than their peers : Ian S. Hargreaves et al . , “ How a Hobby Can Shape Cognition : Visual Word Recognition in Competitive Scrabble Players , " Memory and Cognition 40 , no . 1 ( 2012 ) : 1-7 . 35. Higher levels of knowledge ...
"If you need to change minds (and who doesn't?), this book is stuffed full of deep understanding and practical techniques you can use to influence and persuade others."--
Lauren Feldman (2011) assigned people at random to view clips of either the conservative commentator Glenn Beck's talk show, the progressive commentator Keith Olbermann's talk show, or the PBS NewsHour program.
In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition—often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms—is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains and well ...
This enhanced edition contains ten videos totaling over 25 minutes in length. For many of the skills taught in this book, the author provides a video role-play showing that skill in action.
This is the only book to provide the lay person with a 'readable' history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It provides a valuable introduction to the key figures (from Freud to...
... Not Man-made : ... and Other Arguments It's Time to End for Good Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson ... These data were actually an amalgamation of Michael Mann's famous hockey stick graph (yup, same Mike) and the CRU's dataset ...