Hope & despair
Subtitle: how perceptions of the future shape human behavior
By: Anthony Reading.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Expectation (Psychology); Hope.; Emotions.; Cognition.; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics); Thinking.
Other titles: Hope and despair.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
Table of contents: value: The anatomy of expectation. The nature of hope; value: Predicting the future; value: The internal representation of the external world; value: The machinery of the mind. The processing of information; value: The role of learning and memory; value: The impact of consciousness; value: Emotion as information; value: A blueprint for uniqueness. The evolution of human behavior; value: The gift of language; value: The development of symbolic thought; value: The concept of time; value: The human condition. Science and religion as ways of knowing; value: Shared expectations; value: Despair; value: Human nature: it's about time.