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Human Beings Are Primates, And Primates Are Political Animals. Our Brains, Therefore, Are Designed Not Just To Hunt And Gather, But Also To Help Us Get Ahead Socially, Often Via Deception And Self-deception. But While We May Be Self-interested Schemers, We Benefit By Pretending Otherwise. The Less We Know About Our Own Ugly Motives, The Better - And Thus We Don't Like To Talk Or Even Think About The Extent Of Our Selfishness. This Is The Elephant In The Brain. Such An Introspective Taboo Makes It Hard For Us To Think Clearly About Our Nature And The Explanations For Our Behavior. The Aim Of This Book, Then, Is To Confront Our Hidden Motives Directly - To Track Down The Darker, Unexamined Corners Of Our Psyches And Blast Them With Floodlights. Then, Once Everything Is Clearly Visible, We Can Work To Better Understand Ourselves: Why Do We Laugh? Why Are Artists Sexy? Why Do We Brag About Travel? Why Do We Prefer To Speak Rather Than Listen? Our Unconscious Motives Drive More Than Just Our Private Behavior; They Also Infect Our Venerated Social Institutions Such As Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, And Religion. In Fact, These Institutions Are In Many Ways Designed To Accommod

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Author

Simler, Kevin; Hanson, Robin

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190496005

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (1,454 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14