Acknowledgments p. xi
Preface p. xiii
Chapter 1 Pioneers p. 1
From The Principles of Psychology William James p. 3
From The Unconscious Sigmund Freud p. 12
Chapter 2 Methods p. 18
From How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff p. 20
From How to Think Straight about Psychology Keith Stanovich p. 27
Chapter 3 Evolution and Genes p. 38
From How the Mind Works Steven Pinker p. 39
From The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Create the Complexities of Human Thought Gary Marcus p. 45
Chapter 4 The Brain p. 57
From Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Antonio R. Damasio p. 58
From The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Oliver Sacks p. 70
Chapter 5 Sensation and Perception p. 80
From Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See Donald D. Hoffman p. 81
From Sensory Exotica: A World beyond Human Experience Howard C. Hughes p. 91
Chapter 6 Language p. 96
From The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Steven Pinker p. 97
From The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar Mark C. Baker p. 108
Chapter 7 Learning p. 115
Conditioned Emotional Reactions John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner p. 117
A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior Noam Chomsky p. 129
From Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think Marc D. Hauser p. 137
Chapter 8 Cognitive Development p. 145
From The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn Alison Gopnik and Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff p. 146
From Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human Paul Bloom p. 154
Chapter 9 Memory and Cognition p. 164
From Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past Daniel L. Schacter p. 165
From The Illusion of Conscious Will Daniel M. Wegner p. 177
Chapter 10 Intelligence p. 187
From The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray p. 188
From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Daniel Goleman p. 199
Chapter 11 Motivation and Stress p. 209
From Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi p. 210
From Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping Robert M. Sapolsky p. 223
Chapter 12 Emotion p. 232
From The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph LeDoux p. 233
From Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life Paul Ekman p. 245
From Woman: An Intimate Biography Natalie Angier p. 255
Chapter 13 Social Psychology p. 263
From Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini p. 265
From The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is Essential to Who We Are and How We Live Shelley Taylor p. 273
Chapter 14 Personality p. 282
From Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature Jerome Kagan p. 283
From The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Judith Rich Harris p. 291
Personality Plus Malcolm Gladwell p. 304
Chapter 15 Culture p. 317
From Human Universals Donald E. Brown p. 318
From The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why Richard E. Nisbett p. 330
From Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd p. 335
Chapter 16 Disorders p. 342
From A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash Sylvia Nasar p. 343
From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Kay Redfield Jamison p. 349
From Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism Temple Grandin p. 358
Chapter 17 Treatment p. 365
From Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self Peter D. Kramer p. 366
From Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders Aaron T. Beck p. 380
Permissions Acknowledgments p. 387