Description
This book explores the power and perils of thinking alike. Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker examines how we think about one another’s thoughts, revealing the importance of common knowledge, the awareness that something is public or “out there”. Common knowledge helps explain financial bubbles and crashes, unexpected revolutions, diplomatic posturing and pretence, social-media shaming mobs, academic cancel culture and the awkwardness of a first date. People also go to great lengths to avoid it, using benign hypocrisy, veiled bribes and threats, sexual innuendo and pretending not to see the elephant in the room. By exploring the paradoxes of human behaviour, the book invites us to understand how we try to get into each other’s heads, and the harmonies, hypocrisies and outrages that result.
Information
Language: English
Publication date: September 3, 2026
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: Psychology in english, Books, Foreign language books, English literature, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 364
ISBN/EAN: 9781802061864