Contents

Introduction

1: Hardwiring for Socializing

2: Wizard’s First Rule: Hope and Fear’s Anti–Sweet Spot

3: The Thrill of Discovering Patterns

4: Incongruity: Absurdism, Mystery, and Puzzle

5: Our Biological Nature

6: Our Psychological Biases

7: Why We Get Riveted

More Sources of Interestingness

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index