Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett

Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

Deirdre Barrett

224 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
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A Harvard psychologist explains how our once-helpful instincts get hijacked in our garish modern world. Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely pop...

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