Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side - Hardcover

McCarthy-Jones, Simon

 
9781786078421: Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1786078422 ISBN 13: 9781786078421
Verlag: Oneworld Publications, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have.

Simon McCarthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and genetics to illuminate – whether we admit it or not – our spiteful side. What is that part of us that secretly wants our friends to fail? Did Americans put Trump in the White House just to stick it to Hillary Clinton? And then there are the legion of stories about toxic behaviour in supermarkets and over the privet hedge, ramping up to incendiary divorces, vicious business practices, backbiting politics and scorched-earth terrorism.

There’s a hopeful message too – the upside of our dark side. Spite can drive us forward, and Simon provides a fresh perspective on the concept by showing the evolutionary benefits of spite as a social leveller, an enabler of defiance, a wellspring of freedom and a vital weapon in our everyday armoury.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon McCarthy-Jones is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin. An internationally recognised expert on the experience of hallucinations, he also writes on and researches a range of psychological phenomena and is the author of Spite. He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles published in the New Statesman, New Scientist, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, the Independent and the Irish Times. His articles on ‘The Conversation’ website have received over a million views to date. His website is: www.simonmccarthyjones.com.

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Verlag
Oneworld Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786078422
ISBN 13 
9781786078421
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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