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Author Dutton, Kevin, 1967- author.

Title Black-and-white thinking : the burden of a binary brain in a complex world / Kevin Dutton.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2020

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  150.195 DUTTON    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published in 2020 by Bantam Press, Great Britain."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-362) and index.
Contents The categorization instinct -- A heap of trouble -- When categories collide -- The dark side of black and white -- The viewfinder principle -- The complexity of simplicity -- The rainbow that might have been -- The frame game -- Where there's a why there's a way -- Supersuasion -- Undercover influence : the secret science of getting what you want -- Redrawing the lines -- Postscript: The wisdom of radicals.
Summary "How the evolutionary history of the human brain explains our tendency to sort the world into black-and-white categories"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Categorization (Psychology) -- Popular works.
Social psychology -- Popular works.
Human behavior -- Popular works.
Categorization (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00849006
Human behavior. (OCoLC)fst00962811
Social psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122816
Genre/Form Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
Instructional and educational works.
Creative nonfiction.
ISBN 9780374110345 (hardcover)
0374110344 (hardcover)
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