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Table of Contents for
Explorations in Common Sense and Common Nonsense
Daniel S. Levine
Preface
Acknowledgments
"Bumper Sticker Statements"
PART I: HUMAN NATURE AND ITS PARADOXES
Chapter 1: Beliefs Matter!
Case 1: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Case 2: Entrenched Social Systems
Case 3: Judgment Under Uncertainty
Irrationality and the Brain
Brains, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Society
"The Good I Will I Do Not..."
The Brain and Human Nature
Chapter 2: Neural Networks: Not Just Clever Computers
Current Uses of Neural Networks in Neuroscience and Psychology
The Microstructure of Cognition
Chapter 3: What Do People Really Want?
What is Self-Actualization?
The Hierarchy of Needs and the Drive Reduction Concept
Hedonistic Neurons and Maximal Utility
Drive Representations and Frontal Lobes
Neurosis Versus Long-term Reinforcement
Reason and Emotion Revisited
Chapter 4: Actuality Versus Optimality
What Evolution Can and Can't Tell Us
Multiple Stable States
Power Inequalities
War, and Excessive Fear of Danger
Repression of Feelings
Some Neural Prototypes of Nonoptimal Behavior
Optimism or Pessimism?
tab.gif (836 bytes)PART II: COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION
Chapter 5: How We Make Categories and Constructs
Personal Constructs
Probabilities and Certainties
Tendencies Are Not Unbreakable
Cortical Versus Limbic Categorizations?
A Tentative Neurochemical Theory
Chapter 6: Remaining Open to Change
The Lessons of Coke
Looking the Dragon in the Face
Taming the Dragon
The Psychology of Role Playing and Role Breaking
Unfreezing Our Neural Networks
Chapter 7: Negotiating Cognitive Dissonance
Levels of Mental Conflict Resolution
Self-actualization as Optimal Cognition
Global Versus Local and Part Versus Whole
How Can Our Brains Meet More of Our Needs?
Self-actualization and Information Processing
Norepinephrine, Serotonin, and Pattern Classification
Promoting Global Thinking
Chapter 8: Self-actualization as Creative Synthesis
Reason and Emotion
Mysticism (or Religion) and Science
Pragmatism and Idealism
Selfishness and Altruism
Playfulness and Seriousness
"Masculinity" and "Femininity"
A Duty For Our Neural Networks
Chapter 9: Therapy, for the Person and Society
Philosophical Ideals
Social Experiments
Aesthetic and Religious Experiments
Implications for Psychotherapy
Focusing on Health, Not Disease
Building Healthy Work Places and Organizations
Implications for Politics
tab.gif (836 bytes)PART III: WHERE CAN WE TAKE OUR WISDOM?
Chapter 10: What You Get is More Than What You See
Nature and Nurture Revisited
Add Disinhibition
Prophecies of Doom
What Sometimes Passes for Common Sense
"There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth ..."
An Attitude of Hope
Chapter 11: Brain Science for Humanity
Understanding Daily Life
The Social Brain and the Frontal Lobes
Participatory Democracy
The Lessons of Dynamical Systems Theory
Science Versus "Scientism"
Chapter 12: The Compassionate Revolution
Calhoun's Historical Schema
Population, Environment, and the World Food Supply
A New Equality of the Sexes
Obligation Without Coercion
Tolerance and Diversity
Fun!
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