Brains Behaving Badly

A Mostly Accurate Gudie to PsychologyAndrew G. Gibson

Length6h 41m

About this audiobook

You are not the boss of your brain. You are its public-relations department. Brains Behaving Badly is a darkly funny field guide to the organ that invented fire, taxes, and denial. It’s psychology for people who hate self-help books — part neuroscience, part stand-up confession. Inside, the mind is treated like a glitchy committee of ancient instincts and modern excuses, forever rewriting its own press releases. From cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias to anxiety, addiction, and the cult of certainty, it exposes how emotion runs the show while reason drafts the minutes. Think Sapiens rewritten by your inner cynic: compassionate, irreverent, and painfully accurate. You won’t “fix” your brain here — you’ll finally understand why it behaves so badly, and laugh in self-defence.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology

Length6 hrs 41 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateNov 6, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction: The User’s Manual for a Misbehaving Brain

10Chapter 10: Morality: The User Manual Nobody Reads

2Chapter 2: Cognitive Dissonance: The Art of Sleeping at Night After Doing Terrible Things

11Chapter 11: Society: The Madness of Crowds with Wi-Fi

3Chapter 3: Confirmation Bias and Other Ways We Edit Reality

12Chapter 12: Technology: The Great Enabler and Equal-Opportunity Disaster

4Chapter 4: Memory: Our Favourite Fiction

13Chapter 13: Staying Human: Practices for a Sane Self

5Chapter 5: Emotion: The Real Boss of the Brain

14Chapter 14: The Meaning Problem: Why We Keep Asking and the Universe Keeps Ghosting Us

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6Chapter 6: The Social Mind: Why We’re All Each Other’s Problem

15Chapter 15: The Future: How to Build a Better Apocalypse

7Chapter 7: The Self: A User Illusion with Good PR

16Epilogue: Brains Behaving Badly (and Beautifully)

8Chapter 8: Consciousness: The Trick That Believes Its Own Magic

17Afterword: Notes from a Recovering Human

9Chapter 9: Reality: A Shared Hallucination That Mostly Works

About the author

Andrew G. Gibson

Andrew G. Gibson is a British science fiction author whose work mixes sharp humour, paradox, and raw emotion. His latest novel, The Time Traveller’s User Guide, is a fractured odyssey through parallel histories, alien technologies, and the strange bureaucracy of time itself. Known for inventive storytelling and a unique narrative voice, Gibson explores worlds where memory never updates, love collides with paradox, and every jump through time leaves lasting scars.View all by Andrew G. Gibson