Believing
Subtitle: the neuroscience of fantasies, fears, and convictions
By: Michael McGuire
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781616148294; 9781616148300
Subjects: Belief and doubt; Neuropsychology; Cognitive neuroscience
Description: A book about brain chemistry, neural systems, and the formation of beliefs from the scientist who brought to light serotonin's many crucial roles in human behavior.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- -- Chapter 1.; title: A Career Turns Upside Down -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Where to Start? -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Types and Uses -- -- Chapter 4.; title: What Psychologists Have Found -- -- Chapter 5.; title: Lessons from History -- -- Chapter 6.; title: Evidence, Sources, and Interpretation -- -- Chapter 7.; title: Seeing What We Believe -- -- Chapter 8.; title: Religion as an Exception to Science-Or Is It? -- -- Chapter 9.; title: Philosophical Considerations -- -- Chapter 10.; title: Awareness, Belief, and the Physical Brain -- -- Chapter 11.; title: The Biology of Belief -- -- Chapter 12.; title: Enter Imaginings, Beliefs, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity -- -- Chapter 13.; title: Theory of Mind, Mirroring, and Attribution -- -- Chapter 14.; title: Stories and Models -- -- Chapter 15.; title: Triggering -- -- Chapter 16.; title: Intransigent Beliefs and Belief-Disconfirmation Failure -- -- Chapter 17.; title: And Why? -- -- Chapter 18.; title: What to Do? --; title: Notes --; title: Index.