Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction

Oppenheimer PhD, Danny

ISBN 10: 0393351955 / ISBN 13: 9780393351958

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

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Psychology is the study of our behaviour, of the ways our minds make sense of the world around us. It is a serious, worthy endeavour because we value scientific knowledge, not only for what it tells us about the world, but also for what it reveals about our place in the world. Yet, as cartoonist Grady Klein and psychologist Danny Oppenheimer point out, the study of human experience is naturally comical. The book itself is split into three sections: Making Sense of the World, Making Sense of Ourselves and Making Sense of Others. Observations on perception, stress, language, emotions, cognition and more are parcelled out among these three sections and the cartoon treatment brings them to life. The yawn-inducing James-Lange Theory of Emotion, for example, is explained by a gorilla and human who take turns chasing each other. The availability heuristic is illustrated by a man, scared whitless by sharks, meeting a much more common end underneath a toppled vending machine.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Danny Oppenheimer, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology and social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon and the recipient of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Grady Klein is a cartoonist, animator, and author of several successful cartoon introductions to otherwise dry subjects.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: paperback
Illustrator: Klein, Grady
Zustand: Good