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Behave By Robert M. Sapolsky, How Emotions Are Made By Lisa Feldman Barrett, The Brain By David Eagleman 3 Books Collection
From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
How Emotions Are
Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. “Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”??―??The Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”??―??Scientific American.
The The Story of
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations.
Behave By Robert M. Sapolsky, How Emotions Are Made By Lisa Feldman Barrett, The Brain By David Eagleman 3 Books Collection
From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
How Emotions Are
Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. “Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”??―??The Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”??―??Scientific American.
The The Story of
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations.
1504 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
About the author
Robert M. Sapolsky
25 books5,620 followersRobert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
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August 27, 2026
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This book is divided into two parts. The first is about the biology of behaviour in a interesting framework. Sapolsky explores the events on different time scale that led to the behaviour- few milliseconds before certain brain regions instructing muscles, the stimuli you were just exposed to which might have affected you subconsciously(seeing coke advertisement making you thirst), kind of events adolescence that shaped your brain, all the way back to when you were in your mother's womb, or further the traits that you picked genetically or memetically due to your ancestors who lived thousands of years ago. A holistic approach to understand behaviour from level of neurons operating at milliseconds scale to evolution over millions of years.
The second half of the book how the above learned framework can be used to understand different aspects of behaviour - considering us/them, obedience, moral decision making, empathy and behaviours that are observed in humans as whose primitive form is observed in some primates. Throughout the book, you will find interesting experiments and psychological highlights like for example, Macbeth effect - the urge to clean your hands after you have confessed some immoral event.
The chapter on role of neuroscience in judicial system felt the most interesting to me. If someone has a leg fractureed, what is the probability that he cannot run 100%. The cause and effect are direct to see. But can you predict something of that sort to brain and behaviour. If someone had a damage to Frontal cortex, what is the probablity that they will commit a murder(likely, most criminals have damage to frontal cortex). Now additionally, if we also know that the person had an abusive childhood and had an poor socioeconomic background. Now, this additional information contributes to increased chances of such a person committing murder. And suppose we also know that there has been several abnormal "CAG" gene repeats on chromosome 4(Huntington disease). Now the probability of him commiting a murder under a heateed circumstance has much more increased. The best and worst of our behaviours are multi-factorial spanning different scales. This is the crux of the book.
Sapolsky has an enjoyable and natural writing style. He is a very good orator too. His lectures especially on Depression and Biological underpinnings of religiosity are my favorite. I picked up this book because I heard that this was a introductory read in neuroscience lab and wanted to read Sapolsky since I had heard his wonderful lectures. If you ponder regularly about behaviour, this is the best book to explore its underlying biological process.
The second half of the book how the above learned framework can be used to understand different aspects of behaviour - considering us/them, obedience, moral decision making, empathy and behaviours that are observed in humans as whose primitive form is observed in some primates. Throughout the book, you will find interesting experiments and psychological highlights like for example, Macbeth effect - the urge to clean your hands after you have confessed some immoral event.
The chapter on role of neuroscience in judicial system felt the most interesting to me. If someone has a leg fractureed, what is the probability that he cannot run 100%. The cause and effect are direct to see. But can you predict something of that sort to brain and behaviour. If someone had a damage to Frontal cortex, what is the probablity that they will commit a murder(likely, most criminals have damage to frontal cortex). Now additionally, if we also know that the person had an abusive childhood and had an poor socioeconomic background. Now, this additional information contributes to increased chances of such a person committing murder. And suppose we also know that there has been several abnormal "CAG" gene repeats on chromosome 4(Huntington disease). Now the probability of him commiting a murder under a heateed circumstance has much more increased. The best and worst of our behaviours are multi-factorial spanning different scales. This is the crux of the book.
Sapolsky has an enjoyable and natural writing style. He is a very good orator too. His lectures especially on Depression and Biological underpinnings of religiosity are my favorite. I picked up this book because I heard that this was a introductory read in neuroscience lab and wanted to read Sapolsky since I had heard his wonderful lectures. If you ponder regularly about behaviour, this is the best book to explore its underlying biological process.
December 20, 2019
Behave is a good book, very long, definitely intense. Knowledge regarding neuropsychology a must.
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