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A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines.

Social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do change.

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outlets for them. In this book, with the help of behavioral economics, psychology and other fields, Cass Sunstein casts a bright new light on how change happens.

Die Corona-Pandemie führt nicht nur zu wirtschaftlichen Problemen, sondern sorgt auch zu Angst, Einsamkeit, sozialem Druck und Misstrauen. Manfred Spitzer, Leiter der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Ulm und Bestsellerautor, erklärt verständlich und informativ, welche dramatischen Auswirkungen das Virus auf unser Leben hat, auf jeden Einzelnen, Gruppen und auf unsere Gesellschaft.

In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer. Frontal Fatigue exists when the unique pressures of modern life overwhelm the prefrontal cortex, the part of our brains that can make us susceptible to mental illness.