Quirk

Brain Science Makes Sense Of Your Peculiar Personality

Hannah Holmes

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English

Heinemann
01 March 2011

Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science

Funny, insightful and clever book about our personality quirks and how most of them lies between our ears

Funny, insightful and clever book about our personality quirks and how most of them lie between our ears!

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.

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. ...and much more!

By: Hannah Holmes
Imprint: Heinemann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9781864713046
ISBN 10: 1864713046
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hannah Holmes is the author of The Well-Dressed Ape.