CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

ix

Prologue

xi

PART ONE. SIGNIFICANT IDEAS

1

  1.  Conscious and Unconscious

3

  2.  The Sad Case of Phineas Gage

23

  3.  Understanding Our Ancestors, Understanding Our Emotions

37

  4.  Individual Differences and Development

53

PART TWO. LEARNING, LANGUAGE, THINKING

65

  5.  Stimulus and Response

67

  6.  Language

81

  7.  Mental Models

89

  8.  The Digital World

103

PART THREE. MIND AND BRAIN

121

  9.  You Need Your Head Examined

123

10.  Mental Illness, Psychosomatic Illness

137

11.  fMRI and Brain Bases of Experience

153

12.  Feeling within the Self, Feeling for Others

163

PART FOUR. COMMUNITY

173

13.  In Affection and Conflict

175

14.  Cooperation

187

15.  What Is It about Love?

201

16.  Culture

213

PART FIVE. COMMON HUMANITY

225

17.  Imagination, Stories, Empathy

227

18.  Authority and Morality

247

19.  Creativity, Expertise, Grit

259

20.  Consciousness and Free Will

275

Epilogue

289

Notes

293

References

309

Name Index

343

Subject Index

351

Image Credits

361