Brains Behaving Badly
A Mostly Accurate Gudie to PsychologyBy Andrew 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 byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 6, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction: The User’s Manual for a Misbehaving Brain
2Chapter 2: Cognitive Dissonance: The Art of Sleeping at Night After Doing Terrible Things
3Chapter 3: Confirmation Bias and Other Ways We Edit Reality
4Chapter 4: Memory: Our Favourite Fiction
5Chapter 5: Emotion: The Real Boss of the Brain
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6Chapter 6: The Social Mind: Why We’re All Each Other’s Problem
7Chapter 7: The Self: A User Illusion with Good PR
8Chapter 8: Consciousness: The Trick That Believes Its Own Magic
9Chapter 9: Reality: A Shared Hallucination That Mostly Works
10Chapter 10: Morality: The User Manual Nobody Reads
11Chapter 11: Society: The Madness of Crowds with Wi-Fi
12Chapter 12: Technology: The Great Enabler and Equal-Opportunity Disaster
13Chapter 13: Staying Human: Practices for a Sane Self
14Chapter 14: The Meaning Problem: Why We Keep Asking and the Universe Keeps Ghosting Us
15Chapter 15: The Future: How to Build a Better Apocalypse
16Epilogue: Brains Behaving Badly (and Beautifully)
17Afterword: Notes from a Recovering Human
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