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Governing Behavior

How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do

Ari Berkowitz

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$29.95 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674736900

Publication Date: 03/14/2016

240 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

9 color illustrations, 21 halftones, 18 line illustrations

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1. How to Spy on the Government
2. Isn’t There an Easier Way?
3. Neuronal Dictatorships
4. Neuronal Democracies
5. How Are the Factories Run?
6. The Plot (and the Chemical Soup) Thickens
7. Government Surveillance
8. Government Self-Monitoring
9. Becoming a Political Animal
10. Governing Behavior
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index

Related Links

At The Conversation, read Ari Berkowitz’s explanation of dictatorial versus oligarchic versus free democratic behavior…in your nervous system
At Psychology Today, read Professor Berkowitz’s introductions to decision-making at the cellular level (some neurons are more equal than others!) and to the way animals engage in “electronic surveillance”
See all of Berkowitz’s Psychology Today articles on aspects of Governing Behavior

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