The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social LifeThis book provides a coherent explanation of human nature, which is to say how people think, act, and feel, what they want, and how they interact with each other. The central idea is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to `nable people to create and sustain culture. |
Contents
| 3 | |
2 The Human Psyche at Work | 49 |
3 What People Want | 82 |
4 How People Think | 169 |
5 How and Why Emotions Happen | 245 |
6 How People Act and React | 272 |
7 How People Interact | 340 |
Epilogue | 384 |
Notes | 393 |
| 411 | |
| 441 | |
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