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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-342) and indexes

Prologue -- Part One. Significant Ideas : -- 1. Conscious and Unconscious -- 2. The Sad Case of Phineas Gage -- 3. Understanding Our Ancestors, Understanding Our Emotions -- 4. Individual Differences and Development -- Part Two. Learning, Language, Thinking : -- 5. Stimulus and Response -- 6. Language -- 7. Mental Models -- 8. The Digital World -- Part Three. Mind and Brain : -- 9. You Need Your Head Examined -- 10. Mental Illness, Psychosomatic Illness -- 11. fMRI and Brain Bases of Experience -- 12. Feeling within the Self, Feeling for Others -- Part Four. Community : -- 13. In Affection and Conflict -- 14. Cooperation -- 15. What Is It about Love? -- 16. Culture -- Part Five. Common Humanity : -- 17. Imagination, Stories, Empathy -- 18. Authority and Morality -- 19. Creativity, Expertise, Grit -- 20. Consciousness and Free Will -- Epilogue

"In Our Minds, Our Selves, distinguished psychologist and writer Keith Oatley provides an engaging, original, and authoritative history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women who made them. The book traverses a fascinating terrain: conscious and unconscious knowledge, brain physiology, emotion, mental development, language, memory, mental illness, creativity, human cooperation, and much more. Biographical sketches illuminate the thinkers behind key insights: historical figures such as Darwin, Piaget, Skinner, and Turing; leading contemporaries such as Michael Tomasello and Tania Singer; and influential people from other fields, including Margaret Mead, Noam Chomsky, and Jane Goodall. Enhancing our understanding of ourselves and others, psychology holds the potential to create a better world. Our Minds, Our Selves tells the story of this most important of sciences in a new and appealing way."--