The Fear Factor

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages, 5 b/w integrated illustrations

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:Robinson

ISBN:9781472137814

Published:17 Sep 2020

Weight:240g

Dimensions:242 x 126 x 24(mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

如果人性本善，為什麼有人會犯下*的暴行？如果天性為惡，為什麼那麼多人不惜犧牲自己來幫助他人？究竟是什麼促使人們去幫助或傷害他人？在《人性中的善與惡》中，心理學家阿比蓋爾·馬什對此進行了詳盡分析。

14歲的安柏和所有的孩子一樣，為了達成自己的心願會想盡一切辦法。但不同之處在於，在她殺死自己養的豚鼠、威脅家人要燒掉整座房子、引誘男人以得到錢財時，她對自己可能會給他人造成的傷害無動於衷。而就在幾公里之外，當看到有人溺水時，萊尼·斯庫特尼克卻選擇了捨己救人，跳入冰冷的河水中。在善與惡之間，為什麼人的選擇會如此不同？

阿比蓋爾·馬什通過對患有精神疾病的兒童和非凡利他主義者的大腦進行研究，發現了其中的原因所在：這取決於我們的大腦對他人的恐懼做何反應。對於多數人來説，大腦中杏仁核的初始設置即為從善如流，但若出現變異，它會將英雄變成作惡的魔鬼。

這是一本具有突破性和開創性的圖書，將會刷新你對大腦和人性的認知。

A new popular science book exploring the cutting edge science explaining human altruism and psychopathy, how closely they can be mapped, and how the potential to be more compassionate and kind exists in all of us.

'A riveting ride through your own brain' - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals

WINNER of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's book prize for 'The Promotion of Social and Personality Science'

If humans are fundamentally good, why do we engage in acts of great cruelty? If we are evil, why do we sometimes help others at a cost to ourselves?

Whether humans are good or evil is a question that has plagued philosophers and scientists for as long as there have been philosophers and scientists.

Many argue that we are fundamentally selfish, and only the rules and laws of our societies and our own relentless efforts of will can save us from ourselves. But is this really true?

Abigail Marsh is a social neuroscientist who has closely studied the brains of both the worst and the best among us-from children with psychopathic traits whose families live in fear of them, to adult altruists who have given their own kidneys to strangers. Her groundbreaking findings suggest a possibility that is more optimistic than the dominant view. Humans are not good or evil, but are equally (and fundamentally) capable of good and evil.

In The Fear Factor Marsh explores the human capacity for caring, drawing on cutting edge research findings from clinical, translational and brain imaging investigations on the nature of empathy, altruism, and aggression and brings us closer to understanding the basis of humans' social nature.

'You won't be able to put it down' - Daniel Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness

'[It] reads like a thriller... One of the most mind-opening books I have read in years' - Matthieu Ricard, author of Altruism

作者簡介

阿比蓋爾·馬什(Abigail Marsh)美國喬治城大學心理學和神經科學副教授。TED演講嘉賓。她所領導的社會和情感神經科學實驗室聲名遠播，獲獎無數。她一直致力於行為與大腦研究，試圖揭示為什麼我們會關心其他人，以及從暴力行為到捨生取義的種種惡行和善行的內在動力。

Abigail Marsh is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University and completed her post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health. Her work has been covered in The Times, NPR, The Economist, The Washington Post, and in her popular TED Talk.