Epley, Nicholas,

Mindwise : how we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want / Mind wise. How we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want. Nicholas Epley. - First edition. - xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-228) and index.

Your real sixth sense -- (Mis)reading minds. An overconfident sense ; What you can and cannot know about your own mind -- Does it have a mind? How we dehumanize ; How we anthropomorphize -- What state is another mind in? The trouble of getting over yourself ; The uses and abuses of stereotypes ; How actions can mislead -- Through the eyes of others. How, and how not, to be a better mind reader -- Being mindwise.

An exploration of the human mind's capacity for instinctive understanding about the feelings and desires of others explains how the ability or inability to understand the minds of those around us leads to connection or conflict.

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Empathy.
Emotions.
Interpersonal communication.
Social interaction.
PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal communications.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition.

BF575 .E55 / E75 2014

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