Author: SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ
Title: Everybody Lies
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. Paperback. Pp: 338. 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind. endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist and former Google data scientist, shows that this could just be the most important dataset ever collected. This huge database of secrets unprecedented in human history offers astonishing, even revolutionary, insights into humankind. Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack. Crime levels drop when a violent film is released. And racist searches are no higher in Republican areas than in Democrat ones. Stephens-Davidowitz reveals information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we 're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health both emotional and physical. Insightful, funny, and always surprising, Everybody Lies exposes the biases and secrets embedded deeply within us, at a time when things are harder to predict than ever. ISBN: 9781408894736. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781408894736
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Title: Everybody Lies
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. Paperback. Pp: 338. 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind. endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist and former Google data scientist, shows that this could just be the most important dataset ever collected. This huge database of secrets unprecedented in human history offers astonishing, even revolutionary, insights into humankind. Anxiety, for instance, does not increase after a terrorist attack. Crime levels drop when a violent film is released. And racist searches are no higher in Republican areas than in Democrat ones. Stephens-Davidowitz reveals information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we 're afraid to ask that might be essential to our health both emotional and physical. Insightful, funny, and always surprising, Everybody Lies exposes the biases and secrets embedded deeply within us, at a time when things are harder to predict than ever. ISBN: 9781408894736. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781408894736
Price: EUR 7.50 = appr. US$ 8.15 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2066375
- Book number: 2066375
See more books from our catalog: Psychologie