
Humans are, first and foremost, so c ial creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes--and expl ai ns--most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt or gather or reproduce; our decisions are based on more than "nudges" explo it ing individual cognitive quirks.I'll Have What She's Having shows us how we use the brains of others to think for us and as storage space for knowledge abo ut the world. The story zooms out from the individual to small groups to the complexities of populations. It describes, among other things, how buzzwords propagate and how ideas spread; how the swine flu scare became an epidemic; and how focused social learning by a few get s amplified as copying by the masses. It describes how ideas, behavior, and culture spread t hr ough the simple means of doing what others do.It is notoriously difficult to change behavior. For every "Yes We Can" political slogan, there are thousands of "Just Say No" buttons. I'll Have What She's Having offers a practical map to help us navigate the complex world of social behavior, an essential guide for anyone who wants to understand how people behave and how to begin to change things.
亚历克斯•本特利(Alex Bentley) 英国 布里斯托 大学 考古 学和 人类学 教授。
马克•伊尔斯(Mark Earls) 作家 , 营销 、 传 播与行为 改变 顾问,现居 伦敦 。
迈克尔•奥布莱恩(Michael J. O'Brien) 美国 密苏里大学文 理学 院院长, 人类 学教授,人类学 博物馆 馆长。
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何亚婧 上海 外 国语 大学 法语 学士, 巴黎 高等 翻译 学院笔译硕士。暂居巴黎。
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