
Brain Candy
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Tastier than a twizzler yet more protein-packed than a spinach smoothie, Brain Candy is guaranteed to entertain your brain-even as it reveals hundreds of secrets behind what's driving that electric noodle inside your skull.
These delicious and nutritious pages are packed with bits of bite-sized goodness swiped from the bleeding edge of brain science (including the reason why reading these words is changing your hippocampus at this very moment!) Shelved alongside these succulent neurological nuggets are challenging puzzles and paradoxes, eye-opening perception tests and hacks, fiendish personality quizzes and genius testers, and a grab bag of recurring treats including Eye Hacks, Algebraic Eight Ball, iDread, Wild Kingdom, and Logic of Illogic.
Should you look between these covers and inhale the deliciously cherry-flavored scents of knowledge within, you will grow your grey matter while discovering:
• Why you should be writing bad poetry
• The simple keys to brain training
• What trust smells like
• The origins of human morality
• Why expensive wine always tastes better
• The truth about brain sweat
• How your diet might be making you dumb
• The secrets of game theory
• Why economists hate psychology
• The mental benefits of coffee and cigarettes
• How to really spot a liar
• Why you can't make me eat pie
• The benefits of daydreaming
• Four simple secrets to persuasion
• Why your barin's fzzuy ligoc alowls you to raed this
• How to brainwash friends and family
• The science of body language
• What pigeons know about art
…And much, much more.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Country Music Kills
- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Trepanation Through Time
- Self-Trepanation
- Intro to Game Theory: Prisoner's Dilemma
- Social Contagion: Happiness and Obesity are Catching
- Too Dumb to Know It
- Smarter Every Day
- The Key to Brain Training
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Colonel Blotto I
- The Guilty Pleasure of Schadenfreude
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Colonel Blotto II
- Self-Test
- Mirror Neurons: Your Actions in My Head
- Wild Kingdom: Sentient Elephants
- Neural Nets Know All
- Brain Chip: Neural Nets and the Artificial Hippocampus
- Piece of Mind: Hippocampus
- Abnormal Psych: Hm (Patient)
- Logic of Illogic: The Tricky Secondary Market and Why Economists Hate Psychology
- Cognitive Costs of Winning and Losing Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Roshambo Winners Guide
- The Hedonometer
- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part I
- Eye Hack: Gravity Hill
- The Calculus of Compassion
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: The Origin of Fairness
- Self-Test
- Wild Kingdom: Martyrdom in Brewer's Yeast
- Mad Pride
- Hear with Your Eyes, Speak with Your Ears
- Piece of Mind: Temporal Lobe
- Psy-Op: Flexible Mind of Mastery
- Inmates Running the Prison: Insane Rulers
- Persian Cow Prince
- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part II
- The Expressive Body
- Short and Stout, Long and Tall
- Piece of Mind: Hypothalamus
- Genius Tester #1
- Logic of Illogic: Anchoring
- Ouija Tweet Brain Interface
- Genius Tester #2: Bridge and Torch
- Algebraic Eight-Ball: At What Age Will Technology Overtake Your Ability to Use It?
- Debunked: Self-Affirmation Stinks
- The Economics of Mating I: Monogamy, Polygamy, and Polyamory
- Parasite Brain Punk
- Hang Up and Drive: Your Brain, Split
- Genius Tester #3: Meeting in the Middle
- The Economics of Mating II: Sneaky Female Regulation of the Free Market
- Wild Kingdom: Hummingbirds vs. Fighter Pilots
- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Prefrontal Lobotomy
- Piece of Mind: Frontal Lobe
- The Economics of Mating III: Female Competition
- Logic of Illogic: Battle Robot
- Wild Kingdom: Recreational Rat Pharmacopeia
- Piece of Mind: Midbrain
- The Economics of Mating IV: Gender Scarcity
- Eye Hack: The Waterfall Illusion
- Clowns' Self-Purpose
- Psy-Op: Moving Walkway
- Nails and the Human Brain
- Piece of Mind: Cerebrum
- Jocks, Nerds, and the Secrets of Success
- But Jocks Get Better Grades
- Atkins Makes You Dumb?
- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part III
- Genius Tester #4: Boxes of Bars
- Eye Hack: Cheney-Monster
- Cortical Homunculus
- Psy-Op: Cutting
- Expected Value, Expected Utility, and Prospect Theory
- Logic of Illogic: Luxury Bloodlust
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Kuhn Poker
- Authority and the Strip-Search Prank Call
- Ah, the Teenage (Y)Ears
- Logic of Illogic: You Can't Make Me Eat Pie
- Your Personalized Horoscope
- E-Personality
- Self-Test: Personality Snapshot
- Fuzzy Logic
- Asch Conformity Experiments
- Genius Tester #5: Mr. Smith's Children
- Psy-Op: No Soap Radio
- Wild Kingdom: Guppy Games
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Guess Two-Thirds of the Average
- Debunked: The Happy Herd
- Genius Tester #6: Four Squares Problem
- The One Must of Happiness
- Self-Test
- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part IV
- Eye Hack: Which of These Faces is Happier?
- Genetics of Behavior
- Memory I: Alternate Realities
- Logic of Illogic: So God-Awfully Boring
- Memory II: Creating False Memories
- Memory III: The Brainworks of Bad Memory
- Here Today, Gone in Milliseconds: Iconic Memory
- Post-Stereotype
- Racial Bias in Standardized Testing?
- Piece of Mind: Cerebellum
- Action and Free Will
- Debunked: Misdiagnosis Immunity
- Debunked: Diagnosis Batshit
- Genius Tester #7: Missing Box
- Coffee and Cigarettes Make You Smarter
- Hot or Not
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: The Shortest Fuse Wins the Battle of the Sexes
- Algebraic Eight-Ball: The Chances That He/She is "The One"
- If You Say So: Memorable Lies, Forgettable Truths
- The Eight Mental Disorders of 1857
- Abnormal Psych: Clive Wearing
- Self-Test: A Simple Memory Test
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: El Farol Bar
- Nanotechnology and the Blood-Brain Barrier
- The Diet Paradox: Off-Limits is Open Season
- Ultimate Evil? Neuroimaging as Market Research Tool
- Piece of Mind: Amygdala
- Fuggedaboutit
- Bad Monkey. No Cucumber.
- Wild Kingdom: Hooknose Jack
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Pirate Puzzle
- Blindsight
- Piece of Mind: Occipital Lobe
- Intuition Trumps Reason: The Iowa Gambling Task
- Other Cool Neuropsych Tests
- The Transformative Power of the Unexpected
- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Conscious Neurosurgery
- Eye Hack: Stereogram
- Handwriting Analysis
- Cranial Nerve Mnemonics
- Knox Box
- Genius Tester #8: Houses and Utilities
- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Corpus Callosotomy
- Piece of Mind: Brodmann Areas
- Psy-Op: Infarction
- Brain Sweat
- Your Brain On Space
- Autism and Legos
- Males' Rat-Brained Navigation
- Piece of Mind: Parietal Lobe
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Nash Bargaining Game
- The Brain Works of Religious Conviction and Ecstasy
- Self-Test
- I Choose My Choice
- Fear-Then-Relief Prisoner Compliance
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Signaling Strategies in Bridge and in Job Interviews
- Piece of Mind: Medulla Oblongata
- Placebos are Getting Stronger
- Meerkats, Macaques, Men, and the Healing Effects of Forgiveness
- Neuroethics
- I Would Never
- Self-Test
- Memorization 101
- Does Subliminal Advertising Work?
- Logic of Illogic: K Words
- Genius Tester #9: The Psychology of Getting Suckered
- Psy-Op: Pick a Number, Any Number
- Wild Kingdom: Pigeon Aficionado
- Neural Darwinism
- Stretching Phantom Limb Cramps
- Sheeple
- Psy-Op: Phantom Nose
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Diner's Dilemma
- Logic of Illogic: Fruit Bag
- Wild Kingdom: Analytic Ants
- Abnormal Psych: Phineas Gage
- Is Laughter the Best Medicine?
- The Impact of Tragedy
- Fruit vs. Veggie Personality Smackdown
- Deflecting Incoming Bloopers
- Piece of Mind: Pons
- Algebraic Eight-Ball: Men, What's Your Sex Appeal?
- Psy-Op: Veggie Math
- Abnormal Psych: Ahad Israfil
- The Burden of Conventional Thinking
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Peace/War
- Time Travel: Science, Not Science Fiction
- Active Forgetting: The Mental Boxes of Suppression and Repression
- Genius Tester #10: Time Travel
- Ignoring is Exhausting
- Exercise Makes You Smart
- Do Crosswords Keep the Brain Young?
- I Shop, Therefore I Am
- Genius Tester #11: The Monty Hall Problem
- Piece of Mind: Thalamus
- Biological Basis of Rose-Colored Glasses
- Genius Tester #12: Dementia Quiz
- The Function of Daydreams
- Mean Stuff in the Name of Science: Little Albert
- The Collective Unconscious
- Algebraic Eight-Ball: The Karmometer-Would Your Karma Survive An Intended Prank?
- Brainwashing the Easy Way
- Four Steps to Persuasion
- Logic of Illogic: The End is Near
- Whiffle Ball Crotch Shot
- Self-Test
- Music, Commerce, and Murder
- Algebraic Eight-Ball: Will Your Holiday Cheer Survive Holiday Dinner?
- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Cake-Cutting Problem
- Wild Kingdom: Mosquitoes' Double Dutch
- Un-Apology Apology
- Christmas Carols From the Psych Couch
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Badder
- Psy-Op: Hands and Feet
- Genius Tester #13: Gender Bias
- How to Really Spot a Liar
- Red Beats Blue at the Olympics
- Neurological Support for the Use of Shoe Smell in Controlling Epileptic Seizure
- Puzzle Answers
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
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