Black and White Thinking: How to outsmart the brain, celebrate nuance, and learn to think in technicolour

Kevin Dutton

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In this groundbreaking exploration of how our brains work, psychologist Professor Kevin Dutton explains that by understanding the nature of our hardwired black and white thinking we are better equipped to negotiate life's grey zones and make subtler and smarter decisions.

Our brains are hardwired to sort, categorize and draw lines. It's how we navigate the kaleidoscope of everyday information. Yet imagine failing an exam by a mere 1 per cent. Or being caught speeding at just 1 mph over the speed limit. We have to draw the line somewhere, we say. But lines can be unhelpful or even dangerous when drawn where they aren't wanted, or in too thick a hand.

By thinking in terms of ' 'them' or 'us' and 'this' or 'that' we isolate ourselves from ideas we don't agree with and people who are not the same as us. We fail to listen to the other side of the argument and beliefs become polarized. Intolerance and extremism flourish. The human race has survived by making binary decisions, but such thinking might also destroy us. We may be programmed to think in black and white but rainbow thinking is the key to our cognitive future.

Review

Dutton provides simplifying, clarifying and essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making. You'll not think about thinking the same way afterwards. ― Robert Cialdini, author of INFLUENCE and PRE-SUASION

Kevin Dutton has the great gift of being able to see patterns in human behaviour… He talks about his discoveries, and about their implications for all of us, with the flair and clarity of a practised storyteller. Fascinating, important, and entirely convincing. ― Philip Pullman

Kevin Dutton is a Special Forces style psychologist. Daring. Original. All-action. No nonsense. ― Sir Ranulph Fiennes

About the Author

Dr Kevin Dutton is Australia's first Professor for the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, having spent the best part of the last twenty years as a research psychologist at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and regularly publishes in leading international scientific journals, speaking at conferences around the world. He is the author of Flipnosis and The Wisdom of Psychopaths, for which he was awarded a Best American Science and Nature Writing prize. His work has been translated into over twenty languages, and his writing and research have been featured in Scientific American,New Scientist, The Guardian,The Times, Psychology Today,The New York Times,The Wall St Journal, The Los Angeles Times,The Washington Post, and Time among other publications.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Kevin Dutton
Vydavatel	Penguin
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	400
Formát	12,8 × 19,8 cm
EAN	9780552175364
Rok vydání	2022
Edice	Osobnostní rozvoj