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100 1 $aBrooks, David,$d1961-
245 14 $aThe social animal :$bthe hidden sources of love, character, and achievement /$cDavid Brooks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2011.
300 $axviii, 424 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [381]-406) and index.
505 0 $aDecision making -- The map meld -- Mindsight -- Mapmaking -- Attachment -- Learning -- Norms -- Self-control -- Culture -- Intelligence -- Choice architecture -- Freedom and commitment -- Limerence -- The grand narrative -- Métis -- The insurgency -- Getting older -- Morality -- The leader -- The soft side -- The other education -- Meaning.
520 $aFrom the "New York Times" columnist and author of "Bobos in Paradise" comes an exploration of how human beings and communities succeed. The author interweaves history, science, statistics and instinctual behavioral patterns into a fictional treatment that reiterates his belief in "the way unconscious affections and aversions shape daily life." He employs a novelistic narrative device in his intricate analysis of two upwardly mobile, likeminded individuals. The fictional couple's initial meeting spurs the author to personify the dynamics of attraction via their gender-specific "primitive passions" ("Rob was looking at cleavage, Julia was looking for signs of trustworthiness"), primal scents and cues that would anticipate a lifelong romance. "Aided by chemistry and carried along by feeling," Rob and Julia troubleshoot cohabitation blunders, carnal urges and the birth of son Harold, who, together with his wife-to-be Erica (introduced chapters later), ultimately becomes the focus of the author's behavioral paradigm. Harold's mental development proceeds from kindergarten to high school via cliques, phases and a taboo student-teacher crush. The author expands his group with Erica, an ambitious, ethnically diverse girl raised in a poor public housing project. She excels at a challenging educational platform in her youth and achieves success as a business consultant by cultivating ideas and having Harold develop them for real-world application. Their evolution as husband and wife and consummate professionals is not, however, without a fair share of stumbles.
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