Getting inside your head : what cognitive science can tell us about popular culture / Lisa Zunshine.

"We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly...

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Main Author: Zunshine, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Culture of greedy mind readers
  • I know what you're thinking, Mr. Darcy!
  • Sadistic benefactors
  • Theaters, hippodromes, and other mousetraps
  • Movies : the power of restraint
  • Mockumentaries, photography, and stand-up comedy : upping the agony
  • Reality TV : humiliation in real time
  • Musicals (particularly around 11 pm)
  • Painting feelings
  • Painting mysteries.