Contents

Cover

Title Page

1

Steven Pinker

Organs of Computation

2

George Lakoff

Philosophy in the Flesh

3

Joseph Ledoux

Parallel Memories: Putting Emotions Back into the Brain

4

Geoffrey Miller

Sexual Selection and the Mind

5

Steven Rose

Rescuing Memory

6

Frank Sulloway

How Is Personality Formed?

7

V. S. Ramachandran

Mirror Neurons and Imitation Learning as the Driving Force Behind
“the Great Leap Forward” in Human Evolution

8

Nicholas Humphrey

A Self Worth Having

9

Philip Zimbardo

You Can’t Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel

10

V. S. Ramachandran

The Neurology of Self-Awareness

11

Martin Seligman

Eudaemonia: The Good Life

12

Stanislas Dehaene

What Are Numbers, Really? A Cerebral Basis for Number Sense

13

Simon Baron-Cohen

The Assortative Mating Theory

14

Robert Sapolsky

Toxo: The Parasite that Is Manipulating Human Behavior

15

Alison Gopnik

Amazing Babies

16

Stanislas Dehaene

Signatures of Consciousness

17

David Lykken

How Can Educated People Continue to Be Radical Environmentalists?

18

Jonathan Haidt

Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion