The Enchanted Loom reviews Timothy Wilson's book, Strangers to Ourselves
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The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads fromTimothyWilson’s…
Thread 1:
Humans possess a collection of brain modules that have evolved over time and operate outside of consciousness.(pg. 7)
Thread 2:
We know less and exert less control over our own minds than we think we do.
(pg. 48)
Thread 3:
We take in 11 million pieces of information per second, but process only 40 pieces consciously.
(pg. 24)
Thread 4:
People whose brains can spot dangers and oppor- tunities fast- est are at a huge cultural advantage.
(pg. 35)
Thread 5:
Personality researchers have uncovered five basic traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.
(pg. 69)
Thread 6:
We are often blind to the way unconscious processes influence our behavior.
(pg. 97)
Thread 7:
The real action in the brain is mental processing that produces feelings, judgments and behaviors.
(pg. 105)
Thread 8:
The Durability Bias tends to make us over- estimate how long feelings arising in response to future emotional events will last.(pg. 138)
Thread 9:
Deliberate attempts at thought suppression is a losing proposition.
(pg. 178)
Thread 10:
The so-called Fundamental Attribution Error over- looks situational influences on behavior in favor of internal drivers. (pg. 207)
Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140313/srep04312/fig_tab/srep04312_F1.html
Slide 12 - http://bit.ly/1JvOxyq
Slide 2 - http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/Psych/Faculty/Profile/Timothy-D-Wilson
Slide 6 - http://bit.ly/1H3Mmnf
Slide 5 - http://bit.ly/1JS5LrS
Slide 11 - http://bit.ly/1GE8iiV
Slide 10 - http://friendshelpingothers.org/blog/?p=112
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/the-crow-vs-edward-scissorhands-676123/
Slide 8 - http://www.dominicanajournal.org/face-blindness/
Slide 7 - http://bit.ly/1HxdsEf
Slide 4 - http://creepbay.com/i-didnt-do-it-alien-mind-control-half-mask/
Mark Brady, [email protected]
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