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Great Course Mysteries of Human Behavior

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What this book knows

Human behavior—from blushing to prejudice to memory—follows discoverable patterns that evolutionary psychology and neuroscience can partially explain.

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mind-and-cognition

Participants who perform one self-control task do more poorly on a second, as if the first used up their self-control strength.
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No one can say for certain that memories don't decay, but researchers don't consider decay an important process in everyday forgetting.
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Emotions force us to focus on an event until we take action; without emotions we might overlook or dismiss important things.
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self-and-identity

People blush when they convey an undesired impression, are singled out for praise, or are even merely accused of blushing.
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The heritability of extroversion is around 0.5 to 0.6—roughly half the variability in how extroverted people are is genetic.
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belonging

Group boundaries tell us who is most likely to be cooperative and trustworthy; we trust in-group members more than out-group members.
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