Cordelia Fine delves into the complexities of the human mind and behavior. With scientific rigor, she investigates how our biases and unconscious processes shape our perception of the world. Her writing is insightful and accessible, offering readers fresh perspectives on psychology and our daily lives. Fine helps us understand how our own minds work and how we can better navigate a complex world.
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine challenges the myth that biological differences dictate gender roles. Blending evolutionary science, psychology, and social history, Fine argues that sex, hormones, and culture interact to shape gender dynamics. This witty and insightful book is essential for understanding gender equality today.
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.
Are men from Mars and women really from Venus?Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room – different brains are just suited to different things.Not so, argues cognitive neuroscientist Cordelia Fine.Whether you’ve found yourself frustrated by the gender straitjacket that still constrains us, or failed to notice it, Fine’s sparkling yet vehement attack on ‘neurosexism’ will be essential reading.
Exposing the mind's deceptions and exploring how the mind defends and glorifies the ego, Dr. Fine illustrates the brain's tendency to self-delusion, whether it be hindsight bias, wishful thinking, unrealistic optimism, or moral excuse-making.
Shows the science behind the amazing ways your brain tricks you in everyday life. This work features stories and revealing psychology. It also includes chapters such as: The Immoral Brain, and The Weak-Willed Brain.