01534cam a2200265Ii 4500 on1091005727 OCoLC ta 210223r20192018mauab b 001 0 eng d 9780262537995 (pbk.) 0262537990 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1091005727 D16.16 .R67 2019 Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946- How history gets things wrong : the neuroscience of our addiction to stories / Alex Rosenberg. Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 2019. 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps. Reprint. Originally published: 2018. Includes bibliographical references and index. Besotted by stories -- How many times can the German Army play the same trick? -- Why ever did Hitler declare war on the United States? : That's easy to explain, too easy -- Is the theory of mind wired in? -- The natural history of historians -- What exactly was the Kaiser thinking? -- Can neuroscience tell us what Talleyrand meant? -- Talleyrand's betrayal : in inside story -- Jeopardy! "question" : "It shows the theory of mind to be completely wrong" -- The future of an illusion -- Henry Kissinger mind reads his way through the Congress of Vienna -- Guns, germs, steel--and all that -- The Gulag Archipelago and the uses of history -- The back(non)story. Psychohistory. Cognitive neuroscience. History, Modern Psychological aspects. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 D16.16 .R67 2019 PNLIB21061214 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 1400 1400