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• RockyMcNuts · Oct 3, 2010 · Recommends

  …are the story of a great soul. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Various attempts to reconcile the mind-body dichotomy and build a science of cognition. Human behavior The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal, by Desmond Morris. If you ask people why they act the way they do, they will probably talk about rational, moral, idealistic justifications...…

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• stickfigure · Aug 13, 2022 · Recommends

  …the Galactic Gumshoe, etc etc. * Anything from the Teaching Co. Pick a subject that interests you, you won't be disappointed. If you don't know where to start, go with Robert Sapolsky's "Biology and Human Behavior". * Bill Bryson's "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" is worth calling out for length and breadth. * High-budget podcasts. Not "a couple guys jabbering about how to cook" but the crafted ones. Serial…

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• stickfigure · Aug 26, 2023 · Recommends

  …you will find interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_religion I first learned about the link between temporal lobe epilepsy and hyperreligiosity from Robert Sapolsky's Biology and Human Behavior. From your comments I think you'd find it as interesting as I did.

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• csa · Apr 10, 2017 · Mentions

  …others -- they sometimes bastardize his original work), Robert Sternberg, Lev Vygotsky (usu. in summary... he wrote in Russian), David Perkins, Robert Kegan (esp. In Over Our Heads), Kurt Fischer (esp. Human Behavior...), Eleanor Duckworth, and Jean Piaget (seriously, just know the basic idea of stages of child development -- his ideas have been significantly refined over the past few decades). Just search Amazon…

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