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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behaviorby Leonard Mlodinow
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard’s Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events.
Your preference in politicians, the amount you tip your waiter — all judgments and perceptions reflect the workings of our mind on two levels: the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us. The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the hidden, or subliminal, workings of the mind. The result of this explosion of research is a new science of the unconscious and a sea change in our understanding of how the subliminal mind affects the way we live. Employing his trademark wit and lucid, accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects, Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a tour of this research, unraveling the complexities of the subliminal self and increasing our understanding of how the human mind works and how we interact with friends, strangers, spouses, and coworkers. In the process he changes our view of ourselves and the world around us. Review:"Leonard Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists....The result is a readable crash course in randomness."The New York Times Book Review
Review:"Think you know the whys and hows of your choices? Follow Mlodinow on a gorgeous journey that will make you think again." David Eagleman, author of Incognito
Review:"With the same deft touch he showed in The Drunkard's Walk, Mlodinow probes the subtle, automatic, and often unnoticed influences on our behavior." Daniel J. Simons, professor of psychology, University of Illinois, and coauthor of The Invisible Gorilla
Review:"With great wit and intelligence, Mlodinow takes us on a sweeping tour of this [mental] landscape and the latest revelations in neuroscience." The Huffington Post
Review:"Mlodinow plunges into the realm of the unconscious mind accompanied by the latest scientific research...[with] plenty of his trademark humor." Los Angeles Times
Review:"Clever [and] engaging....A popular-science beach book, the sort of tome from which cocktail party anecdotes can be mined by the dozen." The Oregonian
Review:"Fascinating....Shows how the idea of the unconscious has become respectable again." The Economist
Review:"An assault against the idea that we control our decisions and our beliefs in the way that we think we do....A useful addition to the growing body of work arguing convincingly against the idea of the rational human brain." The Daily Beast
Review:"Mlodinow thinks in equations but explains in anecdote, simile, and occasional bursts of neon....The results are mind-bending." Fortune
Review:"Mlodinow argues his case persuasively and with humor." The Montreal Gazette
Review:"In a loose, easygoing style, Mlodinow combines numerous accounts of scientific studies with pop-culture references and even personal anecdotes." Kirkus Reviews
Review:"Mlodinow is the perfect guy to reveal the ways unrelated elements can relate and connect." The Miami Herald
Review:"This very enlightening book explores the two sides of our mental lives, with a focus on the subconscious or subliminal element. Drawing on clinical research conducted over a period of several decades and containing a number of rather startling revelations...the book appeals to readers with an interest in the workings of the human mind." Booklist
Synopsis:Over the past two decades of neurological research, it has become increasingly clear that the way we experience the world — our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment — is largely driven by the mind's subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed. As in the bestselling The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow employs his signature concise, accessible explanations of the most obscure scientific subjects to unravel the complexities of the subliminal mind. In the process he shows the many ways it influences how we misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates; how we misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions; and how we misremember important events — along the way, changing our view of ourselves and the world around us.
About the AuthorLeonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches at the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include three New York Times best sellers: War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), and The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (also a New York Times Notable Book), as well as Feynman’s Rainbow and Euclid’s Window. He also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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