The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society

The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society - Paperback

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The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society - Paperback

The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society - Paperback

by Charles Maurer , Daphne Maurer
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Book Overview

To socialize, your brain needs to see and hear other people, yet your brain is sealed inside a bony box: your skull. How does an internal mass of tissue comprehend the world outside? How does it form social relationships? This groundbreaking book answers those questions and reveals the perceptual underpinnings of society.

Charles and Daphne Maurer provide a clear explanation of how the brain interprets sensory inputs, showing how rudimentary sensations evolve into social interactions at every scale from nursery to nation. Their novel approach shows how sights, sounds, and smells build social and political worlds. They offer fresh insights into broad swaths of the social sciences.

The World Inside Your Head brings science to life, interweaving cutting-edge research with eye-opening examples across cultures and eras. Its style is lively and free of jargon, yet its argument is rigorous and scholarly. It is an accessible and iconoclastic rethinking of conventional psychology.
ISBN9780231223485
Author Charles Maurer , Daphne Maurer
PublisherColumbia University Press
GenreEducation and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages280
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Charles Maurer
Charles Maurer is a freelance writer who specializes in science and technology. Daphne Maurer is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour. The Maurers are the authors of two previous groundbreaking books about perception: The World of the Newborn (1988), which received the Book Award of the American Psychological Association, and Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, Etc., and Dislike Others (2019).
About Daphne Maurer
Charles Maurer is a freelance writer who specializes in science and technology. Daphne Maurer is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour. The Maurers are the authors of two previous groundbreaking books about perception: The World of the Newborn (1988), which received the Book Award of the American Psychological Association, and Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, Etc., and Dislike Others (2019).

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