How history gets things wrong : the neuroscience of our addiction to stories /

This trade book takes on the widely-shared belief that learning the history of something always contributes to understanding it, is often the best way to do so, and sometimes is the only way. The aim is to explain away these three beliefs, to show why historical narrative is always, always wrong, no...

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Main Author:	Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Psychohistory. Cognitive neuroscience. History, Modern > Psychological aspects.