mesy_mark 's review for:

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam

3.0

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This reminds me of when I took my social psychology class. The interaction between people and how it affects their choices, that happen to be really influenced by unseen forces. I found the example interesting, especially the dementia case where the regards for social norms went out the window. I also liked the laydown of the facts on what really can harm us as in the fact that dying by suicide is a high probability for people, especially police officers.

Yet this book had issues, the work, for one thing, didn't say anything new. The points he made seem to go on tangents that lead nowhere except for being interesting.

Overall it was an interesting read filled with detail that may be too much at sometimes and not nessacary new information.