The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society

The World Inside Your Head

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The World Inside Your Head: How Perceptions Build Society

The World Inside Your Head

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To socialize, your brain needs to see and hear other people, yet your brain is sealed inside a bony box: your skull. How does an internal mass of tissue comprehend the world outside? How does it form social relationships? This groundbreaking book answers those questions and reveals the perceptual underpinnings of society.

Charles and Daphne Maurer provide a clear explanation of how the brain interprets sensory inputs, showing how rudimentary sensations evolve into social interactions at every scale from nursery to nation. Their novel approach shows how sights, sounds, and smells build social and political worlds. They offer fresh insights into broad swaths of the social sciences.

The World Inside Your Head brings science to life, interweaving cutting-edge research with eye-opening examples across cultures and eras. Its style is lively and free of jargon, yet its argument is rigorous and scholarly. It is an accessible and iconoclastic rethinking of conventional psychology.

Book Details

ISBN
9780231223485
Binding
Paperback
Authors
Charles Maurer, Daphne Maurer
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Date
June 30, 2026
Language
English
Pages
280
Physical Info
0.63 in H x 8.5 in L x 5.5 in W (0.72 lb)

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