EAN: 9781787630635

BLACK AND WHITE THINKING - KEVIN DUTTON KARTONI...

It is human instinct to sort and categorize. According to Professor Kevin Dutton  a
psychologist at the University of Oxford  we are hardwired to discriminate and frame everything
in binary black and white. It's how our brains work. Migrant or refugee? Muslim or Christian?
Them or us? Rather than reaching out to those who are different  we bond with those who are
similar to ourselves. Rather than challenging our own thinking about the world  we endeavour
only to confirm what we believe. The result is that the difference between polarized beliefs
becomes ever greater. Dangerous possibilities arise. The Arab Spring. Brexit. Trump. Through
persistent binary thinking our capacity for rational thought - seeing the grey  rather than
merely black and white - begins to erode. Black and White Thinking is an alarm call. Amidst a
rising tide of religious intolerance and political extremism  it argues that by understanding
the evolutionary programming of our binary brains we can overcome it  make sense of the world
and in future make much subtler - and far better - decisions.

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