Brains Behaving Badly

By Andrew G. GibsonA Mostly Accurate Gudie to Psychology

Length6h 41m

About this book

Summary

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.

Book information

Genre

Psychology

Length

6 hrs 41 mins

Publish date

Nov 6, 2025

Language

English

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 Audiobooks by Andrew G. Gibson

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