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Naming the Mind
Book • 1997
In 'Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language', Kurt Danziger explores the evolution of psychological terminology and concepts, highlighting how these terms are socially and historically constructed.
The book challenges the notion that psychological categories reflect a natural order, instead revealing them as dynamic and culturally influenced.
Danziger examines key concepts such as intelligence, motivation, and personality, demonstrating how they have changed over time and across cultures.
The book challenges the notion that psychological categories reflect a natural order, instead revealing them as dynamic and culturally influenced.
Danziger examines key concepts such as intelligence, motivation, and personality, demonstrating how they have changed over time and across cultures.
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as a book exploring the origins of the theory of mind.


Lisa Feldman Barrett

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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain
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as an accessible book explaining the origins of concepts like emotion, cognition, and perception.


Lisa Feldman Barrett

We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.
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as one of three books that influenced her.


Lisa Feldman Barrett

Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them.