Finding Truth in Fiction
What Fan Culture Gets Right - and Why it's Good to Get Lost in a Story
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In Finding Truth in Fiction, two media psychologists reveal that there's much more to our desire to seek out stories in film, TV, and books than simple diversion - fiction can help us find truth in our real lives.
Whether you consider yourself a fan of popular media or whether you find yourself thinking of a particular fictional scene for inspiration, you are not alone. Though some assume that interest in a fictional world is a sign of psychological trouble, the authors enthusiastically disagree. Because story worlds are simulations of our social world, we use them to make sense of our experiences and even decide what kind of people we want to be. This makes fiction far from trivial.
By exploring our relationship with fictional stories and characters, the authors will examine how we create mental models in our minds so we can understand stories and characters and how we differentiate between the identities of characters and the actors who play them. What story arcs, such as the hero's journey, are we drawn to again and again? How do the moments that strike us as important in a story change as we age and move through different stages in our life? Delving into these questions and many more, the authors conclude that being a fan is not just healthy, it's human.
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Philosophy Is and What It Could Be
- De Amazon Customer en 03-09-17
De: Carrie Jenkins
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
- A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
- De: Douglas T. Kenrick
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science a picture emerges. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses these two fields to create a coherent story of human nature. In his analysis, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors—one-night stands, prejudice, conspicuous consumption, even art and religious devotion—are quite explicable and (when desired) avoidable.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rather dated and self-aggrandizing
- De Laurie Frick en 07-21-11
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Ha!
- The Science of When We Laugh and Why
- De: Scott Weems
- Narrado por: Kalen Allmandinger
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 148
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Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funnyand why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good place to start in the study of humor
- De Amazon Customer en 05-26-17
De: Scott Weems
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The Philosophical Baby
- What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life
- De: Alison Gopnik
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik - a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother - explains the cutting-edge scientific and psychological research that has revealed that babies learn more, create more, care more, and experience more than we could ever have imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good info, annoying narrator
- De Anonymous User en 05-17-10
De: Alison Gopnik
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A Place to Belong
- Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond
- De: Amber O'Neal Johnston, Julie Bogart - foreword
- Narrado por: Amber O'Neal Johnston
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read for everyone
- De Travis H. en 06-12-24
De: Amber O'Neal Johnston, y otros
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The Story Paradox
- How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
- De: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrado por: Joshua Kane
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bit of a mixed bag with some amazing discussion
- De Justin en 04-27-22
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The Secret Life of Pronouns
- What Our Words Say About Us
- De: James W. Pennebaker
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 211
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We spend our lives communicating. In the last 50 years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into who we are, how we think, and what we feel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sticks and Stones and Words Can Really Help You
- De Lynn en 09-24-12
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Choice Words
- How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
- De: Peter H. Johnston
- Narrado por: Peter H. Johnston
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills, they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Check it out at the library or don't
- De Lesley en 04-01-12
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Turned On
- Science, Sex and Robots
- De: Kate Devlin
- Narrado por: Kate Devlin
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems? Sex robots are here and here to stay, and more are coming. This audiobook explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nuanced, Smart, and Compassionate
- De Karen en 01-20-19
De: Kate Devlin
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Mindwise
- Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
- De: Nicholas Epley
- Narrado por: Nicholas Epley
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important goal in almost any life: connecting, deeply and intimately and honestly, to other human beings. At its worst, it is a source of misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict, leading to damaged relationships and broken dreams. How good are you at knowing the minds of others?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Finally gave up - no real point
- De Thomas en 05-12-14
De: Nicholas Epley
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The Self Illusion
- Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head
- De: Bruce Hood
- Narrado por: Bruce Hood
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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The Self Illusion provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our individual concept of a self is in fact an illusion. Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body is compelling and inescapable. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat from science as our understanding of the brain advances.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De David R Pinsof en 05-10-12
De: Bruce Hood
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The Belief Instinct
- The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
- De: Jesse Bering
- Narrado por: Jesse Bering
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who might be watching us as we go about our lives, and imagining what might come after death. In this lively and masterfully argued new book, Jesse Bering unveils the psychological underpinnings of why we believe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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engaging and insightful
- De juliagee en 01-02-15
De: Jesse Bering
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Jewish Comedy
- A Serious History
- De: Jeremy Dauber
- Narrado por: Jeremy Dauber
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 178
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In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy - including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar - Dauber explores the ways Jewish comedy has dealt with persecution, assimilation, and diaspora through the ages. He explains the rise and fall of popular comic archetypes such as the Jewish mother, the JAP, and the schlemiel and schlimazel.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not funny
- De supermantwo en 08-31-20
De: Jeremy Dauber
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The Element
- How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- De: Ken Robinson Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Ken Robinson Ph. D., Lou Aronica
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,952
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The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the 21st century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Great
- De Samantha en 04-02-12
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You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- De: David McRaney
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a lot of guidance
- De A. Yoshida en 02-08-14
De: David McRaney
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The Art Instinct
- Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
- De: Denis Dutton
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially constructed".
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5 out of 5 stars
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton