
Quirk
Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
By: Hannah Holmes
Paperback | 1 March 2011 | Edition Number 1
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Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest? Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganized? Whatever you're like, with the tweak of a couple of genes, scientists can make a mouse just like you. And mice, and the scientists who study them, can tell us a lot about ourselves. As Hannah Holmes shows us by humorously examining her own personality and those of her friends and family members, almost everything comes from our genes, from how much we talk to how we vote and how we eat our M&Ms. Using what psychologists call the Five Factor Model, Holmes explains all five (Neuroticism, Extroversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness) and how each manifests itself in real people.
Just some of the fascinating things you'll learn …
- Why people, and all animals, need personality to survive.
- Your score on the factors (Neuroticism, Extroversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Openness) that make up a personality.
- What roles your type evolved to fill.
- Which parts of your personality leave you vulnerable in the modern world.
- Your risk for alcohol or drug addiction.
- How anxiety helps us to survive.
- Why you're compatible with specific types of people, and why other types of people drive you crazy.
About the Author
Hannah Holmes is the author of widely-praised The Well-Dressed Ape which reviewers called "deeply informed but whimsical" (Booklist), and "illuminating...interesting...funny" (The Washington Post). She writes for National Geographic and various other magazines, and is based in Maine. She spends her days in a small, orange office, accompanied by two large dogs and one very naughty mouse.
ISBN: 9781864713046
ISBN-10: 1864713046
Published: 1st March 2011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 262
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
Country of Publication: AU
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 20 x 13 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.24
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