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"For psychiatrist Anthony Reading, hope's power to shape human behavior provides a remarkable opportunity to understand the relationship between mind and brain. Hope and despair dramatically illustrate the capability of the human brain to construct imaginary representations of the universe, allowing us to disengage from the present, recall the past, and forecast the future independent of any current sensory input. Consciousness then enables us to choose among these past, present, and future scenarios and integrate them into coherent plans for action." "Reading's work addresses the ways we process sensory information and their implications for our current understanding of memory, learning, and consciousness; how the brain's ability to transcend time affects our language, emotions, evolution, and individual development; and the light that hope and despair shed on important aspects of our function as individuals and as a species."--BOOK JACKET.
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Hope and Despair: How Perceptions of the Future Shape Human Behavior
August 25, 2004, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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2004, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Hope & despair: how perceptions of the future shape human behavior
2004, Johns Hopkins University Press
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