Us and Them
The Science of Identity
With an new Preface by David Berreby
396 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2005, 2008
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- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction
One "That’s Our Biggest Difference"
Two "There Are Few Questions More Curious Than This"
Three Counting and Measuring
Four Birds of a Feather
Five Mind Sight and Kind Sight
Six Looking for the Codes
Seven How Mind Makes World
Eight Inventing Tradition in Oklahoma, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Nine Them, We Burn
Ten "Our Common Humanity Makes Us Weep"
Eleven No Humans Involved
Twelve Don’t Be a Stranger
Thirteen Hazings and Conversations
Fourteen The Heads on the Poles
Fifteen Species of Darwinism
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Index
Introduction
One "That’s Our Biggest Difference"
Two "There Are Few Questions More Curious Than This"
Three Counting and Measuring
Four Birds of a Feather
Five Mind Sight and Kind Sight
Six Looking for the Codes
Seven How Mind Makes World
Eight Inventing Tradition in Oklahoma, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Nine Them, We Burn
Ten "Our Common Humanity Makes Us Weep"
Eleven No Humans Involved
Twelve Don’t Be a Stranger
Thirteen Hazings and Conversations
Fourteen The Heads on the Poles
Fifteen Species of Darwinism
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Index
Review Quotes
Jodi Forschmeidt | Metapsychology
"At over 300 pages of densely packed, scholarly-yet-accessible text Us & Them takes focused attention. Bereby takes his time and makes his case. If you read Malcolm Gladwell’s breezy bestseller, Blink, and wanted a meatier discussion of the same points, Us & Them will satisfy."
Richard Lipkin | Scientific American Mind
“What exactly is this seemingly natural tendency to sort others into ‘kinds’? This question forms the core of Us and Them, which explores the conscious and unconscious ways in which people classify one another—and more important—why.”
Psychology Today
“We leap to categorize people. . . . Berreby uses mind and brain science to investigate why the human tendency to typecast is so powerful—and apparently so automatic.”
Henry Gee | Scientific American
“[A] brave book. . . . Berreby’s quest is to understand what he sees as a fundamental human urge to classify and identify with ‘human kinds.’”
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