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The Cultural Animal

Hardcover • 2005 • English • 1. edition

The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life

By Baumeister, Roy F.

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About the book

What makes us human? Why do people think, feel and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated both great thinkers and ordinary humans for centuries. Now, at last, there is a solid basis for answering them, in the form of accumulated efforts and studies by thousands of psychology researchers. We no longer have to rely on navel-gazing and speculation to understand why people are the way the...Show more

Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Social, group or collective psychology

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ISBN

9780195167030

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Cultural Animal

Format

Hardcover

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