Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect Paperback – Illustrated, 1 Jan. 1900

This is amazing book. It will clarify a lot of things that you probably noticed from your surroundings. It gives clarification on many questions one may ask. Here are some for example:How we as human beings see social threats? Why we fear reticulating in front of other people? Why we always tent to follow the crowd?I picked some interesting facts of the book. Our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental and basic than a need for food and shelter. We have a unique ability among species to read other peoples minds, to figure out their hopes, fears, and motivations, allowing us to effectively coordinate allies with one another.More reviews on my website http://adamwojnar.comWe are wired to be social. After food and shelter we need to meet social life, because we are not able to do anything else.At the age of 10 hour brain has done 10,000 hours work in social.When we don’t think of anything, our brain switches to solving social puzzles.Being with and around people means survive. Mother Theresa said that the most devastating thing what one can experience is to live without other people. Don’t always search in yourself. Look around to find out who you are. People give you feedback is all the time.Our brains want us to be average for survivor and safety. We are survivor machines. People who can be seen by cameras therefore punished by society behave better. Less stealing and breaking rules. The worst punishment is, what will others say.We won’t be good for the group because they reward us. The key is giving.Social pain is like physical pain. It helps us ensure the survival of our children by helping to keep them close today a parent. The new ruling between social and physical pain also ensures that staying social contact it will be a lifelong need, like food and warmth. Given the fact that our brains treat social and physical pain similarly, should we as a society treats social pain differently than we do?Our society has assumed the smartest among us are those who have particularly strong analytical skills. But from the listener in perspective, perhaps the smartest among us are actually dealt with the best social skills.I do not mean to suggest that physical and social pain are identical. No one has ever broken his arm and confused with having been dumped by his girlfriend. Memories of social pain are much more intense the memories of social pain. Different kinds of pain feel differently and have distinctive characteristics. Social pain is a real pain just as physical pain is real pain.– When we take a pill for headache it seems that it helps our feelings of heartache go away too.– Taking a pill for headache or physical pain had made the brain’s network less sensitive to the pain of rejection.– Mutual cooperation activates the reward system as an end in itself.All tests show that our supposed to be selfish and reward system seems to like giving more than receiving. Even test with children show that teenagers reported taking pleasure in helping their families in daily life, they also showed increased reward system activity when donating their money to the families.– Our cultural development of skills and habits depends on our capacity of imitation.– If the person is unable to mimic those facial expressions because of recent Botox injections that actually paralyze the expressive muscles in the face, that person will actually be worse at recognizing emotions in others.– Our self works for a group to ensure that we will fit in. Most of us will conform to group norms, promoting social harmony.– Possibility of being judged and evaluated by others dramatically increases our tendency to behave in line with societies values and morals.The message is clear I’ll brain is profoundly social, with some of the oldies social wiring dating back more than hundred million years. Our wiring motivates us to stay connected. It returned our attention again and again to understanding the minds of the people around us like a rubber band snapping back into place.More reviews on my website http://adamwojnar.com

One of the books that need to be used in teaching

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Brilliant book. Insightful, well-written and very interesting. I bought this book because I was interested in social connection in light of the covid-19 lockdown. In this book, Lieberman explores how we are wired to connect. Social connection is one of our fundamental needs. The book draws on lots of scientific research and yet it helpfully balances academic rigor with an engaging writing style. As someone without a scientific background, I found it very engaging and informative.The evidence in the book is really eye opening. If I'd read this book aged 17 I probably would have studied something different at university!Great read, highly recommend.

I bought this for a friend, but because of major problems with the seller the order came too late and was damaged so I decided to read it myself. Seriously, what an amazingly absorbing, yet completely underrated and under exposed book. What I love about this book? It's easy to read, isn't overly complex, offers fascinating insights into the brain and makes you really think about yourself and the world around you.This type of book should be mandatory reading for everyone. So many studies are cited in this book that will absolutely shock and wow you. People push exercise and healthy eating as the cornerstone of a healthy life but after reading this book, I would add social interaction as equally important. Great work Matthew Lieberman!

This is an exceptional book, examining the latest in neuroscience and demonstrating how social interactions are woven into the very essence of how we live our lives. The implications for our personal, family, community and workplace relationships are all explored. Lieberman manages to make the 'science' not only intelligible to the lay person but entertaining and absolutely compelling! This book should be compulsory reading for leaders of `organizations' such as schools and workplaces - implementing even a few his suggestions would make phenomenal changes for the better.

It's an amazing book! I really enjoy it! Also, it arrived in good condition.

Well maybe our brains are wired to connect, but that notion is bit simplistic, as we are also wired for 'flight / fight' response, not just for social connection. Also we can be wired for traumatic connection as well as more healthy type. Very hard to modify how one brain connects in terms of attachment, better or worse connections, etc.

Ignore 1 star reviews. This is a masterpiece

Good book. Teaches a lot about human interaction and how our ability to socialize and communicate has taken us forward in life as a species. While the book is to a large extent technical in its approach, I think if you have the patience and the openness to learn, there is great value in this book.

O produto é de excelente qualidade, tendo em vista o material do papel ser super confortável, não obstante ser imprescindível exímio cuidado no manuseio, a textura é finíssima e delicada, muito agradável, parecendo ser feita de seda. Eu Gostei bastante do material do livro. Excelente.

Excelente libro que nos ofrece un amplio conocimiento de la psicologia social, con información fundamentada y ejemplos aplicados a situaciones de la vida real, tiene algo de tecnisísmo pero al ser repetitivo nos vamos familiarizando con los términos de acuerdo a como se va avanzando en la lectura.La aplicación de este conocimiento en nuestra sociedad y a nivel personal puede traer grandes beneficios para mejorar nuestras relaciones personales y nuesta conexión con el entorno social.

Le livre est à la hauteur de ses promesses . Facile à lire , l'auteur n'hésite pas à revenir sur ses explications à travers de brèves synthèses . Interessant si vous vous intéressez aux théories de l'esprit .... et au fait qu'on est beaucoup moins égoïstes qu'on se plait à se l'imaginer .Va bien en complément de "sapiens " .